Pitching to the left
Democratic candidates for president try to appeal to an ideological audience that pays attention to early campaigns, but will that hurt the candidates in the longer term?
The power of The purse
"At some point," White House press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters last month, "our goal here obviously is to dump all this stuff, flush the toilet, and say it's all one big argument for campaign finance reform." The "stuff"
Creating controversy
Plans for creation museum met with big bang in Kentucky
We're all fallible
The pope, evolution, and the importance of good translation
Madeleine Albright's utopian universalism
Secretary of State-designate's faith in multilateralism may provide some direction to Clinton's ad-hoc foreign policy, but will it turn the military into a "global Salvation Army"?
Notebook
Culture
Music
From the other side
Although the gospel albums that sold the most in 1996 came from Andy Griffith and Jars of Clay, the ones that held up best under repeated listenings belonged to a cast of characters who, for the m...
Books
I am, therefore...
Every January I endeavor to re-read a handful of classic books. This year that pleasant task has been made that much more delightful by new editions of two of my favorite titles on the list. ...
Books
The culture of freedom
One of the most influential intellectual movements of late is libertarianism. Not to be confused with libertinism, libertarianism is the modern extension of the classical liberal philosophy that b...
Culture
Culture Notes
Free (-market) TV The Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the government's "must carry" regulations that require cable operators to carry all local TV broadcasters i...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
Newt Gingrich's problem, I've always thought, he's like Lenin. They both made a revolution by shooting people--Newt shot Democrats, Lenin shot everybody--and then they didn't have sense enough to ...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
The scarlet letter Fear that "the people's business" is being ignored amidst the partisan wrangling over ethics charges and countercharges in Washington is not very well-founded. It...