WASHINGTON -- As changing technologies and preferences make government-funded broadcasting increasingly preposterous, such broadcasting actually becomes useful by illustrating two dismal facts.One is the immortality of entitlements that especially benefit those among society鈥檚 articulate ...
WASHINGTON -- In 1950, the year before William F. Buckley burst into the national conversation, the literary critic Lionel Trilling revealed why the nation was ripe for Buckley鈥檚 high-spirited romp through its political and cultural controversies.Liberalism, Trilling declared, was 鈥渘ot only ...
WASHINGTON -- A blind spider creeping through America鈥檚 judicial thicket might be heading to the Supreme Court, which will have to decide if the contentment or even the survival of the Bone Cave Harvestman spider species, which lives only in two central Texas counties, is any of the federal ...
WASHINGTON -- In July 1954, a 19-year-old Memphis truck driver recorded at Sun Studio the song 鈥淭hat鈥檚 All Right.鈥漌hen a local disc jockey promised to play it, the truck driver tuned his parents鈥� radio to the station and went to a movie. His mother pulled him from the theater because ...
WASHINGTON -- Having bestowed the presidency on a candidate who described their country as a 鈥渉ellhole鈥� besieged by multitudes trying to get into it, Americans need an antidote for social hypochondria. Fortunately, one has arrived from Don Boudreaux, an economist at George Mason ...
WASHINGTON -- It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump鈥檚 inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to ...