Japan’s nuclear agony has proved one of two things: Either humanity was never meant to tap the power of the atom, or the long, slow climb toward a nuclear economy ...

Last fall, Democrats tried desperately to turn voters’ anxieties about trade with China into a winning issue on Election Day. Yet while Americans tell pollsters they worry about losing jobs ...

The case of Alan P. Gross is an extraordinary one, and an outrageous one. If you have not heard of Gross, you can be forgiven: His case has received relatively ...

Assemble any group of entertainment-industry executives — doesn’t matter who or how many — and eventually the conversation turns to the Internet. The value of any entertainment product — television show, ...

‘If Jeb Bush’s name were Jeb Smith, he’d be the next president of the United States,” says Texas governor Rick Perry, and then there’s a long pause in the conversation ...

‘To economists reading this essay in 2010, perhaps the most remarkable single fact to note about monetary policy at the end of the interwar period” — the author, Columbia University ...

At 7:30 in the morning, Walter E. Williams hobbles into his classroom, ready to teach. He’s limping from a recent fracture to his foot. At six-foot-five, however, he remains an ...

In the final year of the 20th century, my family, or to be precise my aunt Liliane, received notification from authorities in Austria that they would be returning a painting ...

One of the most incisive aphorisms of one of the finest aphorists of all time, La Rochefoucauld, goes like this: “We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that ...

For many political and religious exiles from China, the past decade has been a bit like living in a lonely wooden tower on the west coast of Ireland back in ...

If the proper study of mankind is man, it has taken a remarkably long time to get that study on a truly scientific footing. From the founding of the Royal ...

The makers of alien-invasion movies tend to have a low opinion of human military prowess. Sometimes the space invaders are so completely invincible that our only options are to heed ...

How Efficient Is High-Speed Rail? I am disappointed that National Review has again (in “The Week,” March 7) dismissed high-speed rail as a “niche market” item. And, although the statistics in ...

‐ At least we agree: We wish he were president of China too. ‐ “Thou turnest man to destruction. . . . Thou carriest them away as with a flood.” The ...

LAMENT The mole was dead upon the ground; He did not move when he was poked. His coat was sleek, his body round, His life revoked. His parts seemed not to coincide: His hands were stuck ...