Birthday toasts to Irving Kristol by Christopher DeMuth, George Will, Walter Berns, Midge Decter, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Kristol.

At this event, one of a series of Nixon Legacy Forums sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation, four members of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's White House staff will discuss his relations with Nixon and their collaborations on welfare reform, education policy, and other issues.

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Discussion of the design and historyof White House, Capitol, and Supreme Court.

Few social scientists, and even fewer political scientists, have done as much to improve American life as James Q. Wilson, who died last week at age 80.

Newt Gingrich wants to pay poor kids to clean toilets. And all of the right people are horrified.

We must engage with China when it is in our interests to do so. But our most urgent task is to successfully play balance of power politics in Asia until a new regime emerges in China that is more accepting of the international order and less afraid of its own people.

In his speech in Tucson on Wednesday, Barack Obama put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the shooting.