How Congress’s dysfunction has degraded its own in-house think tank.
Government
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2014
Let’s Pay for the Government We Get
Why, someday soon, middle-class taxes will have to go up.
Posted inEducation, Government, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014
How to Find a Career with Uncle Sam
The Pathway Programs have the express aim of attracting talented and diverse young adults into government work.
Posted inEducation, Government, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014
You Can’t Ask That
Enacted a generation ago in response to real abuses by some notorious medical researchers, so-called institutional review boards have morphed into entities that are stifling and distorting important research throughout academia.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, September/October 2014
Obama’s Bureaucratic Generals
Inside the lives of the agency heads who actually run the federal government.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Government, June/July/August 2014, Magazine
A Liberal’s Call to Real Liberty
How FDR redefined freedom and changed America.
Posted inGovernment, June/July/August 2014, Magazine
Alone on His Own Ice Floe
How Antonin Scalia ceased to be a powerhouse jurist and became a crank.
Posted inBooks, Government, Law and Justice, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Abolition and Backlash
Efforts to ban capital punishment are growing. But keep this in mind: the last time the Supreme Court tried to end the death penalty, we got more executions.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Backward, Christian Soldiers
To end the culture war that divides America, we need to recognize that each side has the same roots: the radical democratic individualism of America’s Protestant heritage.
