Joseph Lawler

ABCNews writes it up: conservatives hate Avatar. In that article they cite Ross Douthat of the NYT, Jonah Goldberg of…

Andrew Leonard has an interesting article in today’s Times on Bernanke’s recent arguments that the Fed should have greater regulatory…

If you are interested in the Rubio/Crist primary race in Florida, and would like to read a long, tendentious article…

U. Chicago economists Gary Becker, Steven Davis, and Kevin Murphy strike a Higgsian note in an op-ed in today’s Wall…

Apparently TurboTax tweaked the 2009 version of their software to prevent anyone from claiming, as Tim Geithner did during his…

Hillary edges Sarah Palin and crushes Michelle Obama in popularity poll; is “most admired woman in America” (Politico) The government…

Liberals, apparently, are having a hard time incorporating libertarian Whole Foods CEO John Mackey into their worldviews (New Yorker), while…

It’s a commonplace that “reform” opponents are lying, distorting, and misinforming their way to “reform” obstruction, Matt Welch has a…

The Commerce Department has revised third quarter GDP down, again. Unfortunately, what originally appeared to be fairly strong growth of…

The New York Times Magazine for this weekend features a long profile of Princeton professor Robert P. George, written by…