The Blizzard of 2010 has crippled the glamorous borough of Queens; thankfully, I was visiting family outside the city when the snow fell and have now retreated to my rural retreat in the rolling Dutchess County hunt country.  There is plenty of snow up here, but we haven’t had to cope with the horrors the […]

The dissipation and ego that were Norman Mailer’s life have now sired lesser children.

The Obama Administration can’t avoid state-building if it wants to exit the war safely.

It’s not just foolish to cut education in tough times; in many cases it’s illegal.

Why the law can’t trump the power of money in American politics.

With the November elections just around the corner, the Washington Post is reporting that the Obama Administration is scrambling for ways to boost America’s dismal job numbers—without busting the budget. Here are two low-cost options they ought to try: immigration reform and Federal R&D spending reform.

The legacy of American jurisprudence recognizes no contradiction between liberty and wealth—at least not yet.

The plutocracy is trying to neuter efforts to clamp down on tax evasion.

On balance, no. It turns out that greed works after all.

Two books on anarchism suggest a new role for an old political philosophy.