By • Jul 04,2006

Europe’s leviathan

How the EU grew into a sprawling international complex of supra-national administrative institutions and bureaucratic networks, and why many Europeans seem to like it that way.

By • Jun 25,2006

Lies and the First Amendment

My father has a favorite joke about politicians. If you see a politician raising his or her eyebrow, then you can be pretty sure that they are telling the truth....

By • Jun 25,2006

Storm in June

Who would have guessed that a thirty-seven-year-old foreign film would be the summer’s first sleeper hit? Army of Shadows, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film, faded into obscurity after an initial lukewarm reception...

By • Jun 25,2006

The pretense of knowledge

We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is based — a communications system which we call the market...

By • Jun 19,2006

Protecting life or regulating sex?

Despite the culture-war rhetoric on both the left and the right, there’s mostly agreement in the abortion debate. The American Enterprise Institute’s Karlyn Bowman has spent decades analyzing public opinion...