So, this is the new conservatism鈥檚 recipe for restored greatness: Political coercion shall supplant economic calculation in shaping decisions by companies in what is called, with diminishing accuracy, the private sector.This will be done partly as conservatism鈥檚 challenge to liberalism鈥檚 ...
History has a sly sense of humor. It caused an epiphany regarding infrastructure projects 鈥� roads, harbors, airports, etc. 鈥� to occur on a bridge over Boston鈥檚 Charles River, hard by Harvard Yard, where rarely is heard a discouraging word about government.Last spring, Larry Summers, ...
At this shank end of a shabby year, Americans still can be thankful: They do not have the problem of nothing to grumble about. As we steel ourselves for Thanksgiving鈥檚 obligatory routs and revels 鈥� does anyone really like turkey? or Uncle Ralph, who keeps turning up, like a bad penny? 鈥� ...
At dawn Tuesday in West Quoddy Head, Maine, the easternmost point of the United States, it was certain that by midnight in Cape Wrangell, Alaska, the westernmost fringe, there would be a loser who deserved to lose and a winner who did not deserve to win. The surprise is that Barack Obama must ...
As the presidential campaigns sink to the challenge of demonstrating that there is no such thing as rock bottom, remember this: When the Clintons decamped from Washington in January 2001, they took some White House furnishings that were public property. They also accepted more than $190,000 in ...
When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared 鈥淚 accept the universe,鈥� the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle dryly remarked: 鈥淪he鈥檇 better.鈥滿uch ink and indignation has been spilled concerning whether Donald (鈥淚 am much more humble than you ...