Obama's Chicago way fosters a culture of crony capitalism and assumes that there will always be a bounteous private sector for politicians to plunder.

The animal spirits of high earners are going to be directed away from productive investment and toward tax avoidance.

Review of Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and The Clinton Wars, by Sidney Blumenthal.

From his earliest days, Barack Obamahas adoptedthe worldview and values of the American Left, and he shows little sign of having moved beyond it.

The revival of conservatism, drawing upon the richness of American exceptionalism, explains why America has refused to make peace with the modern welfare state, why it remains a military superpower, and why Americans remain religious people.

Despite government efforts to contain it, Chinese villagers are using "village democracy" to gain the skills and mores of democratic, self-governing people.