With 'don't ask, don't tell' repealed and gays seeking marriage equality, the homosexual bourgeoisie is emerging--a concept subversive to both liberals and conservatives.

Review of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, by David Brooks.

I am deeply moved and honored more than I can say by this award from my esteemed colleagues and friends at AEI, and especially because of its association with the name and memory of Irving Kristol, a man for all seasons. Irving Kristol was my teacher, editor, mentor, patron, and...

Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

For the last 50 years, the bourgeoisie has been quietly disappearing and depriving the art world of its target, yet there is one last redoubt where the bourgeoisie can be corralled into a corner and spat upon, and that is the opera.

Kim Jong Il was nothing less than an economic catastrophe for North Korea. His political ascent, in fact, tracks almost precisely with that ill-fated nation's shift to economic stagnation and then its frightening free-fall into abject mass misery.

Excerpts from David Brookslecture onthe theme of his new book, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There.

Vladimir Putin continues to make a fool of himself over the election in Ukraine, though he is beginning to be a dangerous fool. Perhaps because his own views on life, politics, and diplomacy were formed through the many years he worked in the KGB, the Russian President seems unable to grasp that meddling in Ukrainian politics, to press Russian interests over Ukrainian, is not in the Russian interest.