American-Israeli author Gershom Gorenberg​ argues, Israel is a country best defined by its contradictions. So is his newest book, The Unmaking of Israel.

One hundred years ago, social reformers took on an ambitious agenda. Hunger, poverty, housing, disease--all were targets of a major reform movement that swept the country in an effort to achieve the egalitarianism promised by America's founders.

Now, at the beginning of the new century, says Robert Fogel...

Robert W. Fogel's Bradley Lecture.

The American republic relies upon a common, egalitarian citizenship, but this republican virtue has been under assault from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its judicial interpretation.

Women do not have an assigned place. In free societies, they choose where they wish to be. For at least five millon women in America, that happens to be in the home as full-time mothers. What is wrong with that?

Wealth, freedom, and equality of richest, freest, and most egalitarian societiescause the welfare state to unravel.

In recent decades, our education expectations have skyrocketed, with policymakers today insisting that all students need to master skills once thought the province of the elite. We need schools far more capable than the one-size-fits-all bureaucracies of an earlier era.

The majority of Americans will not be able to buy their way out of Obamacare and the new health care plan will not reform the way Medicare pays physicians.