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?

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

In the Massachusetts race, where the Republican promised to be the decisive vote to kill the Democrats' health care bills, working class and minority voters, as well as voters farther up the income scale, did not rally to save them.

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

What is there to say about Barack Obama's speech to Congress Thursday night and the so-called American Jobs Act he said Congress must pass? Several thoughts occur, all starting with P.

“Rational control” is the subjection of society to reason as opposed to superstition, prejudice, or tradition, with the aim of getting us to behave better. Alexis de Tocqueville says this idea or practice began with the French monarchy; a more recent example is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and...