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Hemingway: Unions of the Snakes
Posted on March 25, 2009Obama is looking to the unions to help push through his agenda. His opponents mustnt focus on card check to the point of being caught flat-footed on health-care reform.
Wood: Reading Flannery
Posted on March 25, 2009In this great, difficult writers work, characters wrangle with hard questions that the suavely civilized often seek to ignore.
Sokolski: Nuclear Dealing
Posted on March 25, 2009A hasty deal with the UAE could set a bad precedent for Middle East proliferation.
Nordlinger: Negroponte at Large, Part II
Posted on March 25, 2009Jay Nordlinger talks with the famous ex-diplomat about presidents, professors, and more.
Lowry: The War Hasnt Been Tried
Posted on March 24, 2009Can Afghanistan become another Iraq? A few years ago that would have been a question full of foreboding. Now, it expresses an aspiration.
Sowell: Bad Actors
Posted on March 24, 2009Grandstanding on AIG is in one sense cheap beyond words. In another sense, it is costly beyond words.
Charen: Sex Workers Art Show on Campus
Posted on March 24, 2009If universities cannot imagine that sex workers are degraded by their work, how can they begin to understand that promiscuity compromises self-worth?
Nordlinger: Negroponte at Large, Part I
Posted on March 24, 2009Jay Nordlinger visits with a man who has been many places, and known many things.
Malpass: The Fed Lacks Urgency
Posted on March 24, 2009Balance-sheet expansion is the right plan, but it needs to be implemented at a much quicker pace.
McCarthy: CAIRs Well-Deserved Expulsion
Posted on March 24, 2009Incrementally establishing shariah is the central imperative of CAIR.
Derbyshire: Will Obama Kill Science? (Cont.)
Posted on March 24, 2009Lets see how much the Obama administration loves science when it comes crashing up against political correctness.
Krikorian: Mexico Isnt a Failed State Yet
Posted on March 24, 2009There is much we can do to help prevent it from failing -- and, more important, much we must do to protect ourselves.
Lopez: Mark His Words
Posted on March 24, 2009Lest youve heard his on-air pitch and worry he is overreacting with his warnings about soft tyranny, Levin quotes Ronald Reagan: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
Hess: Beware College Rankings
Posted on March 23, 2009Formulas for ranking colleges can yield questionable results.
Tushnet: Then Its the Bomb that Will Bring Us Together
Posted on March 23, 2009Zack Snyders powerful adaptation strips away too many of the nuances, grace notes, and complexities that the comic offered.
Rodgers: Who Watches the Worldview?
Posted on March 23, 2009Rather than complain about the culture, conservatives should compete for it.
Lopez: What Feminism Wrought
Posted on March 23, 2009By erasing the natural distinctions between men and women, feminism leaves both worse off.
Benard: Democracy in Europe
Posted on March 23, 2009A modern-day Tocqueville-in-reverse explains why we should not use Europe as a model.
Symposium: A Moral Exemplar?
Posted on March 23, 2009Should Notre Dame have invited Barack Obama to speak at commencement and offered him an honorary degree?
Greve: Preemption Strike
Posted on March 23, 2009Federal preemption is the only available defense for virtually any industry against rapacious tort lawyers and ambitious state attorneys general.
Steyn: The Outrage Kabuki
Posted on March 21, 2009Its an outrage to suggest youre anything other than outrageously outraged!
Goldberg: Liberal Views, Belgian Brains
Posted on March 20, 2009Liberalism has openly yearned to Europeanize American social policy for decades.
Lowry: Dont Keep on Truckin
Posted on March 20, 2009The Teamsters cant abide Mexican trucks because they represent competition, and so they must be blocked legal obligations, economic rationality and diplomatic sense aside.
Murdock: Secret Ballots for Me, But Not for Thee
Posted on March 20, 2009Card-check opponents should make union bosses explain how their reforms are irresistible, yet simultaneously vulnerable to secret ballots.
Charen: Mob Mentality on Capitol Hill
Posted on March 20, 2009It would be difficult for even the worst banking or insurance executive to outshine our elected officials when it comes to shamelessness.
Kahane: Axelrod, by George!
Posted on March 20, 2009BHO is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being weve ever known in our lives.
Freddoso: Year of the RAT
Posted on March 20, 2009Obamas transparency website will be slower coming than youd think.
Symposium: Going Galt
Posted on March 20, 2009Is Rand freshly relevant in the Age of Obama? Or was she not worth reading in the first place?
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