A conversation with the author of Bowling Alone

Meet the visionaries of the new eugenics.

Sources and solutions to save our Seventh Amendment rights.

I find myself greatly saddened by the news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. I met her for the first time when we took a class together on Middle Eastern Politics at Harvard, while she was still an undergraduate. I saw her twice since then, both occasions on visits to Dehli in December 2003 and then again […]

I was in Warsaw, Poland, and Aarhus, Denmark last week on the heels of recent elections in both countries. The victory of Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party over the incumbent Law and Justice party in the Polish case was genuinely uplifting. Poland has been ruled for the past two years by a pair of identical […]

The story behind Argentina’s newest power couple.

Nicolas Sarkozy ran on a platform of breaking with the
French status quo, and—sacrebleu!—he won.

Three books on Alexis de Tocqueville pay homage, sort of.

Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms aims to spoil our taste for Adam Smith with some warmed-over Malthus.

The birth of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans.”