Development policy needs a sturdier foundation than GDP growth. What should the principles of development policy be? In light of the often-dark history of Western attempts to develop other parts of ...

The Northwest Passage promised prosperity; now it’s the newest theatre of increasingly tense geopolitics. Since the end of the fifteenth century, seafaring explorers have searched for a westward route ...

Tom Cruise trades his physical stunts for a more psychological form of athleticism. Tom Cruise may possibly be the biggest movie star in the world. His career has been a constant stream of ...

The Founders’ constitutional morality demands more than mechanical checks and balances. Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, ...

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Bourgeois norms such as work ethic, stability, frugality, and ingenuity can actually make you quite rich. Americans have a lot of misconceptions about the rich. This becomes clear when you read The ...

When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation. Frederick Douglass didn’t just ask Americans to honor their Constitution. He demanded ...

The state should try to give citizens an "equal opportunity" to live in neighborhoods free of violent crime. Every child has a right to grow up without fear of gunshots at their door. This may be one ...

Justice Clarence Thomas’s brand of originalism is “going further,” and he is now on track to set the Supreme Court’s longevity record. Despite the Left’s best efforts to derail Thomas’s confirmation ...

AI in health care promises greater efficiency, but only if it balances the objective knowledge of the physician with the subjective wisdom of the patient. The phrase “humans in the loop” has that made ...

Romanticism has its attractions, but it is unsuited for the political moment in which we find ourselves. A well-known scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian can tell us something about how populism ...

The "Nietzsche of the Andes" displayed deep distrust of social engineers who seek to remake societies and artificially reshape persons. The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of ...