F.H. Buckley

One of my favorite comedians is Alfred Brooks, whose Looking for Comedy in the Moslem World portrayed a Jewish comic…

WELL, THAT WAS A BUMMER. Still, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is it’s going to get…

OVER THE LAST 250 YEARS there have been four American constitutions, each giving us a very different form of government….

The failures of American foreign policy may be seen in the ashes of the Benghazi mission, and the question that…

THE HOTTEST BOOK THIS SUMMER is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, on how liberals and conservatives see the world differently….

THIS IS THE CENTURY OF THE RULE OF LAW. In the 20th century, that wasn’t thought so important, and Milton…

There’s a uniquely American ritual that has so far escaped the attention of cultural anthropologists. A group of people huddle,…

There is a certain kind of inside-the-beltway conservative (you know the type) who emerges from his cocoon from time to…

American Exceptionalism has taken a few hits of late, with the country lagging in important measures of performance. We used…

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It By Lawrence Lessig (Twelve, 383 pages, $26.99)…