Big Ideas
These stories are conceptual--food for thought.
- Waiting for Hamilton: The ‘Imbecility’ of the EU Alex J. Pollock 02/01/2012
- Alexander Hamilton asserted 'the imbecility' of the United States under the Articles of Confederation. There are lessons for Europe today.
- The Problem with Bambi-nomics Robert McHenry 01/27/2012
- On Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and modern political discourse.
- Tim Tebow and the Atheist’s Dilemma Lee Harris 01/20/2012
- Perhaps the only effective remedy for the all-too-human temptation to hubris among the spectacularly gifted, especially when they happen to be amazingly lucky as well, is the kind of humility that is invoked by faith in a God.
- The Origins of Envy Max Borders 01/14/2012
- Our egalitarian feelings were forged in the Stone Age. But the cave man ethos is not always appropriate in the context of the modern world.
- The High Cost of Government Waste Lewis M. Andrews 01/12/2012
- Many promising space exploration proposals have been abandoned over the years in the name of more pressing social priorities.
- The Sinatra of Social Science The Editors 01/06/2012
- Pat Moynihan once encountered Nixon in the hall of the White House and said ‘Mr. President, James Q. Wilson is the smartest man in the United States. The president of the United States should pay attention to what he has to say.’
- Cameron the Neo-Con? Gary Schmitt 12/29/2011
- British Prime Minister David Cameron's interventionist foreign policy has surprised many, but it shouldn't.
- Why the Left Is Losing the Argument over the Financial Crisis Peter J. Wallison and Edward Pinto 12/27/2011
- Fair-minded people are persuaded by facts, not invective.
- Is a Woman’s Place at Work? Christina Hoff Sommers 12/22/2011
- Antipathy towards stay-at-home mothers goes back to the early days of modern feminism.
- The Class Warfare We Need Steve Conover 12/10/2011
- The class deserving voters’ wrath is composed of society’s predators and parasites, who span all rungs of the income ladder.