Rick Perry the Likely Nominee

The Trash Talker: Why Rick Perry Will Thrive in Presidential Debates

America Reaches a Demographic Tipping Point

In Which I Try To Restrain My Nasty Impulses, With Limited Success

Conservatives, Nostalgia, and Racism

My Week at the National Conservative Student Conference

Government as Innovation's Spark Plug

David Thomson on Films: ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ is Slick, Breathless, and Daft

Free Birth Control? Conservatives Say No

Metro Job Engines Remain Stalled

FAA Impasse Should Result in Reform

The Shifting GOP Nominating Calendar Will Produce a Knockout Victory—Or an Extended Slugfest

Jaycee Dugard’s Memoir, An Acclaimed Novel, and the Art of Writing About Captivity

Obama's Dangerous Credibility Problem

Amazon.com: Terrible Corporate Citizen

Cambridge Journal: What Explains Fashionable Hostility Toward Israel?

Bond Market Underestimating Nut Factor

Carmaggedon Is Upon Us! (Or, What L.A. Can Do About Its Terrible Traffic.)

Ad Absurdum

Don't Be Evil