There is probably no bigger issue facing our economy than creating economic growth. Today, I'd like to talk about why growth matters so much, the importance of human capital to growth, and the moral case for economic growth.

Our understanding of white America is subject to a number of outdated assumptions that need rethinking.

The shallow-loss program would give farmers subsidies to bring them up to 90 percent or even 95 percent of the average revenues they have received for any given crop over the previous five years whenever current revenues from those crops fall below those amounts. Anyone who knows anything about American agriculture understands just how implausible that idea is.

Many liberals predicted that the financial crisis would increase Americans' confidence in Big Government. That has not happened.

America loves entrepreneurs--for good reason: they spark our imagination and remind us of the potential in each of us.

Both sides in the battle over health care reform have played around with the facts, creating a cloud of half-truths that has blurred the debate.

There is a longing on the left for the golden years of the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s. However, America of the past is a different country to which we cannot return.

Altruism is simply not enough to satisfy the global organ shortage that has spawned illegal and unregulated organ markets, so government-sponsored compensation of healthy of individuals who are willing to give one of their kidneys is the best short-term solution.