We need to separate the issue of the general importance of cultural diversity, not only in the United States but in the world at large.

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.

Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the Center for the Study of Public Choice. He is also the director of both the James Buchanan Center and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His publications include the books In Praise of Commercial...

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

The lifting of elite-school bans against the ROTC will be a lost opportunity unless the military and civilian leadership push for more substantive changes to the ROTC program, broadening its base and seeking more geographic and institutional diversity.

Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and director of its Mercatus Center, delivered the ninth of the 2004–2005 Bradley Lectures.

The ideal of an "American way of life" is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated.

Race-conscious practices are alive and well in 2006, regenerating in the dark like virulent weeds.