This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

A national agreement among politicians to not lure the Saints away through subsidies might just be a first step toward eliminating this particular brand of unproductive corporate welfare.

The late New York Times columnist Bill Safire was known for channeling the “Great Mentioner,” the unseen oracle who launched political careers into the stratosphere simply by mentioning a person’s name. Today, a more malevolent oracle is at work in Washington — call him the “Great Whisperer” — seeking to...

Dust of the Saints is the remarkable story of a young journalist’s courageous journey through Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with a group of Muslim freedom fighters.

The atheist view of the world israther bleaker than that of Jews and Christians: suffering under the weight of evil is meaningless, and so is any struggle against evil.

India's problems do not stem from crony capitalism but crony socialism, the continued hold of an often corrupt and inept political class on economic decision making. Like most countries, India could do with greater competition and fewer barriers to entry for new businesses. But it's India's politicians and bureaucrats who need reining in, not its billionaires.

It is culture that creates economics, and not the other way around.

Can economics declare which team was the big winner in last weekend's NFL draft?