There’s a lot more Congress can do to put our financial house in order.

Edward Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
eruditely makes the case that such a thing actually existed.

A new life of Dr. Seuss, American icon.

The amazing dumb luck of a Victorian romantic gone native.

The sudden deaths of a British Princess and a Polish President don’t have much in common, but the reactions to them do.

There’s plenty of hubris to be found on both sides of the Atlantic.

Europe’s strength lies in its diversity of history and of geography, but its weakness lies there as well.

Since 1976, when the Supreme Court decided the seminal case of Buckley v. Valeo, the Justices have been locked in what both sides see as a Manichean struggle over the constitutionality of campaign finance regulation. On one side are those Justices who view the world of politics as fraught with corruption and undue access for […]

The Supreme Court’s January 21, 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission struck me with a case of double vision. The decision said that corporations and labor unions have as much right as individuals to spend unlimited amounts for political advocacy. I cannot see corporations as being equivalent to natural persons and therefore […]

While Europeans and Americans argue about who has the more attractive model, the rest of the world is increasingly being tempted by a third option.