Joseph Lawler

Eliot Spitzer has helpfully laid down the principles of his governing philosophy in an essay (taken from a speech) for…

National Journal has released their ratings of members of Congress. Some interesting results: James Inhofe just edges Jim DeMint as…

Jonathan Chait thinks that so far Obama’s doing OK at the health care reform summit: President Obama is so much…

What to make of the news that the man who physically accosted Mitt Romney on a flight from the Vancouver…

Yesterday evening the Federal Reserve announced that it was raising the interest rates on discount window loans from 0.50 percent…

Former George W. Bush speechwriter, National Review contributor, new Washington Post columnist, and self-professed Catholic Marc Thiessen appeared on the…

David Leonhardt’s column from yesterday’s New York Times that argued that the Obama stimulus “really worked” has, predictably, drawn gloating…

While talking about the stimulus today, President Obama repeated his suggestion that Republicans are being hypocritical in publicly condemning the…

Government projects ultimately cost more than planned, claims Veronique de Rugy in a Reason piece that will shock none. In…

Commentators have interpreted my brief blog post complimenting Leon Wieseltier’s New Republic takedown of Andrew Sullivan as supporting the implied…