What boxer Sonny Liston鈥檚 manager said of him (Sonny had his good points, the trouble was his bad points) is true of Marco Rubio. His strengths include intelligence, articulateness and, usually, cheerfulness. His misjudgments involve, in ascending order of importance, the Senate immigration ...
鈥淓xperience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government鈥檚 purposes are beneficent.鈥濃�� Louis BrandeisThe impulse to ferret corruption from politics corrupts the criminal justice system when it causes overzealous prosecutors and judges to improvise novel ...
Although he is just 22, Andrew Zeller is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Purdue University. He is one reason the school is a rare exception to the rule of unreason on U.S. campuses, where freedom of speech is under siege. He and Purdue are evidence that freedom of speech, by ...
History, on the 鈥渞ight side鈥� of which Barack Obama endeavors to keep us, has a sense of whimsy. Proof of which is something happening this week: Britain鈥檚 last deep-pit coal mine is closing, a small event pertinent to an enormous event, the Industrial Revolution, which was ignited by ...
In today鈥檚 culture of hyperbole, born of desperate attempts to be noticed amid the Niagara of Internet and other outpourings, the label 鈥済enius鈥� is affixed promiscuously to evanescent popular entertainers, fungible corporate chief executives and other perishable phenomena. But it almost ...
Sen. Tim Scott, who evidently has not received the memo explaining that politics is a grim and bitter business, laughs easily and often, as when, during lunch in this city鈥檚 humming downtown, he explains that South Carolina鈥檚 Lowcountry is benefiting from what are called 鈥渉alfbacks.鈥� ...