Secretary Arne Duncan, who argues that policymakers should use "data to drive reform," strongly believes that education policy should be "framed by evidence." We agree.

Reflections on the Revolution in France was an indictment not only of the French Revolution but of the French Enlightenment.

Edmund Burke is identified today as a conservative thinker--indeed, one of the greatest conservative thinkers--by his admirers. But his conservatism was more complicated and provocative than even conservatives appreciate. His Reflections on the Revolution in France, a searing indictment of the Revolution, brilliantly forecast the Reign of Terror that was...

Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare.” Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn’t the court keep the good stuff in Obamacare and just dump the unconstitutional bits?

Review of The Enduring Edmund Burke, edited by Ian Crowe.

Liberals often speak in seemingly harmless cliches that they hope will penetrate our mental defenses. Here are some of the most egregious examples.