Kevin Williamson writes Catholics Against Capitalism in The National Review Online excerpts: The increasingly global and specialized division of labor and the resulting chains of production — i.e., modern capitalism, the unprecedented worldwide project of voluntary human cooperation that is the unique
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Yuval Levin writes a review of ‘Why Government Fails So Often’ by Peter H. Schuck in The Wall Street Journal Excerpts: To be successful, he argues, a public policy has to get six things right: incentives, instruments, information, adaptability, credibility
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Why Young People Can’t Find Work, by Andrew Puzder in the Wall Street Journal Excerpts: Consider these grim employment numbers: • In February the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recorded the lowest percentage of 16- to 19-year-olds working or actively
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In the Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore and Richard Vedder, The Blue-State Path to Inequality excerpts: The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider in blue states than in red states. Our state-by-state analysis finds that
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“In politics there is very little reason to grow less wrong, and sometimes good reason to grow more wrong. In aggregate, this leads to destructive policy choices. This is a structural defect inherent in the political model of decision making.
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from The Wall Street Journal, Book Review: ‘Sons of Wichita’ by Daniel Schulman & ‘Big Money’ by Kenneth P. Vogel– review by Barton Swaim excerpt: Whatever else Mr. Vogel’s book proves, “Big Money” makes clear that this influx of mega-cash
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From Michael Barone at National Review- Equality at the Expense of Prosperity: Economist Tyler Cowen takes issue with another of Piketty’s assumptions, that the rich can earn 4 to 5 percent on their wealth “automatically, with the mere passage of time,
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“There are many volumes to be written on the history of what went wrong with American health care, but here is a short and very simplified version: The Roosevelt administration began imposing central planning on broad swathes of the U.S.
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From The Austin American Statesman Surge in property tax bills spurs push to reform tax appraisal process “I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of
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Book Review: ‘The Big Fat Surprise’ by Nina Teicholz What if the government’s crusade against fat fed the spread of obesity by encouraging us to abstain from foods that satiate us efficiently? from The Wall Street Journal by Trevor Butterworth
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Outside the ‘Consensus’–Notes of a Climate Change ‘Denier’ – by Peter Wood excerpts: That diversity, of course, is nearly unheard of in the academy itself, where a hardened orthodoxy is enforced with increasing determination. The enforcement itself tells a story. No
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Post-Achievement Politics of Obama and Hillary in his excellent blog, The Sultan Knish Excerpts: Post-American politics are also post-achievement politics. The morality of progressivism is more important than the substance of progress. The politics of the
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from John Steele Gordon in The Wall Street Journal, The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality Excerpts: The great growth of fortunes in recent decades is not a sinister development. Instead it is simply the inevitable result of an extraordinary technological innovation,
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“Assisted by radical congressmen like Ron Dellums and Bella Abzug, Hayden set up a caucus in the Capitol building where he lectured congressional staffers on the need to end American aid. He directed his attention to Cambodia as well, lobbying
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