Hume’s warnings against public debt should spur American leaders to address our own runaway debt crisis.

Raygun emerged from a tradition that does not enshrine excellence. That tradition is the academy.

Under any version of originalism, the Hylton case is useless, or worse than useless, as evidence of constitutional meaning.

Election results could be predicted with much greater accuracy if we allowed people to bet on them.

The free market exists because of something no one likes to be reminded of: scarcity.

Rioting sparked by far-right populism in the United Kingdom shows conservatives need a better approach to politics.

A century after Keynes’s famous lecture, faith in economic interventionism persists across the political spectrum.

Technological change and institutional decay have changed the way journalism works. Where do we go from here?

As Brazil's example shows, price controls cannot solve the problems caused by lax monetary and fiscal policies.

Liberalism must adapt its open-textured principles to meet the moment.

Civics education should emphasize the skills necessary for deliberation—inside and outside of Congress.

Over-zealous regulation of new technologies will hinder innovation and distort normal market forces.

Ten years ago, conservatives were discussing freedom-friendly family policies that might be worth revisiting.

Gore Vidal’s The Best Man depicts the sturm und drang of a political convention, in which all politicians have feet of clay.