A review of Eric Davis's Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity.

Under the banner of the American Educational Research Association, roughly 20,000 researchers will convene in Vancouver to report on research that can help fuel student learning and improve schools. If only they knew what wasn't enough.

American identity, character, and civic life are shaped by many things, but decisive among them are our national memories—of our long history, our triumphs and tragedies, our national aspirations and achievements. Crucial to the national memory are the words our forebears wrote, to show us who we are and what we might yet become.

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...

The very fact that an American president talks about extremist Muslims validates them as the most important and significant of Muslim individuals.

The biggest problem with the labor market right now is that wages are too high. A number of reasons help explain why wages do not and will not drop, beginning with federal and state minimum-wage laws.

Tolerance in higher education has become too much to tolerate.

The Second World War, which so many on the Left worked to avoid in the 1930s, was ironically the very instrument by which Britain was transformed in directions they had long wished: the dismantling of empire, the embrace of economic planning, and a vast expansion of the welfare state.