A now-irrelevant provision of the Voting Rights Act may soon be no more.

Imbued with a sense of victimhood, entitlement, and cultivated grievance that can only be taught, today's college students respond to inconvenience with temper tantrums.

One of the few issues on which opinion has moved left over the last few years is same-sex marriage. Why? One reason is probably that as people learn that friends and relatives are gay, they become more sympathetic to gay rights. But increasing support for same-sex marriage causes problems for politicians.

Michael Novak will deliver the May 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

Today President Obama is ignoring the lessons of the civil rights era he claims to revere. The only purpose of the executive order is to dangle the specter of retaliation (by losing her contracts) and harassment (from political opponents).

By penalizing old-fashioned morality you do not make toleration of the new morality more likely.

With 'don't ask, don't tell' repealed and gays seeking marriage equality, the homosexual bourgeoisie is emerging--a concept subversive to both liberals and conservatives.

While many Americans still have reservations about gay marriage, attitudes about homosexuality in general have changed significantly.

Forty-five years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department has adopted a definition of discriminatory intent that strengthens the federal hand in micromanaging districting in states and counties throughout the United States and increases the odds that the Supreme Court will soon cast a skeptical eye on Section 5.

Rand Paul is wrong, as the libertarian position should not be to defend Jim Crow but to condemn it due to its unjust bigotry and its economic folly.