Virginia would seem to be a prime candidate for school-choice: It's mostly Republican, is quite religious, and tends to support family-values public policies. So why does it fare so poorly...
Christopher Buckley, author of many well-known Washington satires – Thank You for Smoking , Little Green Men , and the forthcoming Florence of Arabia – recently sat down for an interview with Doublethink editor David Skinner. The debriefing...
The fate of Charlie Dingleman, the protagonist of Jeffrey Frank’s novel Bad Publicity , brings to mind contemporary American foreign policy debates. Charlie, a former congressman now shilling for a K Street...
The working title of Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies, was Bright Young Things. I suspect the change in the novel’s tone had something to do with the swap. Midway through writing...
To truly win the war in Iraq, winning "the hearts and minds" of the liberated is indispensable. We have just lost a lot of hearts and minds.
Circus showman P. T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Amongst libertarians, millions of suckers are reborn every four years–just in time for the next presidential election....
