Joseph Lawler

A number of conservative commentators, including and especially those writing at this blog, have argued, correctly, that Obamacare is a…

In the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, Peter Baker provides a retrospective on Obama’s first economic team…

Via Joshua Green, here is the video of 2012 GOP hopeful Herman Cain debating Bill Clinton on the impact the…

Practicing a piece of music for four hours requires focused attention, but it is nowhere near as cognitively demanding as…

Yesterday Dana Goldstein took the occasion of MLK day to note a troubling fact:  American schools are more segregated by race and…

At the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse site, Helen Alvaré, Greg Pfundstein, Matthew Schmitz and Ryan T. Anderson argue that the…

In the New York Times, Ramesh Ponnuru presents the argument that the GOP should hold off on attempts to reform…

National Affairs editor Yuval Levin also responds to Ramesh Ponnuru’s argument that Republicans should slow-play entitlement reform:  I don’t think it’s…

I was discouraged from finishing former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s interview with The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart because for the…

Today the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) released a report on the automotive bailouts that clarified the ongoing risks taxpayers are…