Stephen Moore

A COMMON LIBERAL REFRAIN is that conservatives have no real health care agenda of their own— other than, of course, opposing Obamacare. For instance, in the midst of debate over the president’s signature health “reform” bill, one progressive Florida congressman…

The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise By Arthur C. Brooks (Basic Books, 214 pages, $25.99) THOUGH THE SUICIDAL EDITOR of this magazine has written in his new book, The Death of Liberalism, that Liberalism…

Perhaps the most arresting way to illustrate the breakdown of Medicaid is to explain how a 12-year-old Maryland boy died of a toothache. Medicaid, the national entitlement program for the poor, is supposed to ensure that no one suffers without…

ALSO IN CHOICE SYMPOSIUM James Piereson A Time for Choosing Rep. Paul Ryan Empowering Individuals or Bureaucrats? David N. Bass The Millennial Perspective Conservative leaders—from Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, to Tea Party Republicans who stormed the House in 2010—have…

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger…

In the immediate aftermath of the debt ceiling deal in August, liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill felt as though they had been flattened by the Tea Party express. The plan promised $2.1 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade….

Several years ago I had a debate with my friend, Chris DeMuth, then the president of the American Enterprise Institute. We were discussing how conservative ideas on the economy had triumphed over the past 30 years on issues like the…

It’s hard to know where the fairy tale of “green jobs” first came from. It was probably a clever marketing scheme by radical environmentalists who realized that their anti-growth climate change agenda wasn’t going to sell among the American electorate…