Big government “solutions” for every social problem under the sun are all around us. I thought I’d seen them all — until recently, when I found myself debating a statist proposal to cure apathy. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise…

WASHINGTON — The Jack Abramoff scandal has many individual players, but it’s also added fuel to an older and broader theme — the quest to purge politics of money. Well, at least, money provided by business. Money provided by government…