Among his many talents, Ronald Reagan had a special gift for proving his critics wrong. Almost none of the leading economists of the late 1970s thought that his supply-side tax-cutting ...

Never in the field of human history has there been a clearer illustration of the maxim “Culture matters” than that which has been provided by the English-speaking peoples and their ...

Right now, two-thirds of all Americans own a smartphone. By the end of 2016, there will be 2 billion smartphones in use worldwide. That means 2 billion smartphone cameras in constant ...

In this self-righteous book, Mr. Morell, a former director of the CIA, employs his advanced de­gree in economics to display convincingly why an economist can never reach a conclusion. Morell’s narrative ...

Even before he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1975 and emigrated to France, there was always something French about Milan Kundera. Like the father of modern aphorists, the Duke de ...

Ann Coulter is bold, brash, provocative, talented, fearless, witty, and outrageous. If she were on the left, she’d be lionized. (Lionessized?) She’d be widely regarded as an adornment to society. ...

The Inklings were a mid-century club of writers and talkers who met twice a week in Oxford, Thursday nights in the Mag­dalen College rooms of C. S. Lewis, Tuesday mornings ...

‘The effect of Dewey’s philosophy on the design of curricular systems was devastating,” Richard Hofstadter wrote over 50 years ago in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Mark ...

Cold Comfort Ian Tuttle’s article on a proposed road through congressionally designated wilderness in Alaska (“Deadly Environmentalism,” June 22) omitted several salient facts. While people on both sides of the issue respect ...

SEX IN THE ENGLISH GARDEN Light, feathery Astilbe Sways gently in the breeze, Afraid she always will be Faint fluff beneath the trees Concealing dear Sweet William, Who rings each foxglove’s bell Mid coreopsis ruffles, White lily, like ...