Public Square
What's happening in the "third places" beyond home and work.
- Desegregation by Deliciousness Michael McShane 02/27/2013
- What schools can learn from barbeque restaurants.
- Can the GOP Be Saved? The Myth of the Demographic Fix Lee Harris 01/30/2013
- Conventional wisdom holds that as African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and gays increase their political clout, Republicans must devise a way of reaching out to these critical demographic groups. Is this wisdom correct?
- The GOP Must Lead (Again) on Civil Rights Cliff Asness 01/29/2013
- Here are three important civil rights issues that the GOP should take action on.
- What Does It Mean to Say That a Gun Law Is Tough? Lee Harris 01/16/2013
- Perhaps the best that can be said about the New York gun law is that it is a modern updating of the old principle of apotropaic magic.
- A Student Debt Cure Worse Than the Disease Andrew Kelly 12/18/2012
- Taxpayers may have more reason to be concerned about the government’s response to high levels of student debt than the debt itself.
- Debt and the Constitution John Steele Gordon 12/13/2012
- Congress and Congress alone is granted the power ‘to borrow money on the credit of the United States.’ Can Congress delegate that power to the president and restrain its own ability to take the power back?
- Teachers and the License Raj Andrew G. Biggs 12/12/2012
- Requiring prospective teachers to take a rigorous ‘bar exam,’ as union chief Randi Weingarten proposes, is the wrong way to recruit and assess teachers.
- A Tax Morass Only a Lawyer Could Love Ilya Shapiro and Matt Gilliam 12/10/2012
- The IRS is beginning to implement a tax penalty that poses some very real economic and constitutional dangers, including the harassment of taxpayers for political ends.
- The Guardians Ralph Kinney Bennett 11/12/2012
- They have kept a rendezvous with death, stiffened their sinews in times of alarm, and made the best of the misery of the battlefield and the tedium of the long watch in wars both hot and cold.
- Are We Doomed No Matter Who Wins? Michael M. Rosen 11/05/2012
- At first glance it certainly appears that way.