F.H. Buckley

So what’s with John Boehner’s newfound love of litigation? The speaker announced yesterday that he will ask the House to initiate a lawsuit against the president over his refusal to enforce the laws Congress has passed. That’s something the Wall…

David Brat’s stunning primary victory has happily killed off the prospect of immigration reform this year, and so the pro-immigration folks are busily trying to tell us that immigration had nothing to do with it. What nonsense! David is not…

So now Bowe Bergdahl is back in the U.S. And the five Al-Qaeda terrorists we released for him are in Qatar—doubtless on their way to Iraq or Afghanistan. The prospect of an American defeat in both countries makes the exchange…

The Rule of Nobody: Saving America From Dead Laws and Broken GovernmentBy Philip K. Howard(Norton, 256 pages, $23.95) The best law book in the last twenty years received very little attention from anyone in the American legal academy. That book, The Death…

Those of us of a certain age can remember the shame Americans felt over the national humiliation on the fall of Saigon in 1975. We’re not seeing much evidence of that, on the anticipated fall of Baghdad, which doesn’t even…

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States: How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Change EverythingBy Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Rex A. Sinquefield, and Travis H. Brown(Wiley, 368 pages, $29.95) We move around. About half…

Gutzon Borglum knew what he was doing when he picked the site for the future Mount Rushmore. The area’s 1.6 billion-year-old granite is thought to erode only a single inch every ten millennia. Barring a detonation at the hands of…

For the first time in my life I became a community organizer over the last few months. It’s not an experience I’ll want to repeat any time soon. With a group of neighbors I took on City Hall and a…

No one seems to get why the Ukraine Crisis matters, why a Russian invasion of the Crimea represents a turning-point in American decline. But decades hence historians might point to today as the moment when everything changed.  Oh, I’m not…

In the supreme court, the religious wars continue. This term the Court is asked to decide whether the city council of Greece, New York, may open its meetings with prayers from local clerics. The clerics, as is their wont, have…