Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

Michael Barone, senior writer for U.S. News and World Report, delivered the second of AEI"s 1999-2000 Bradley Lectures on October 4, 1999.

The judiciary is following the nation's growing sentiment that race and ethnicity should play a smaller role in our public policies. Here is how Congress can follow.

A university is more than the sum of its ethnic parts. It is comprised of individuals — black, white, Hispanic, Asian and others — who should be admitted or rejected without their race or ethnic heritage making any difference.

In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

This volume offers essays and commentaries by leading economists and demographers from both sides of the border.

International events show that a transformation of modernity is at stake in the new ethnicity.

Despite legitimate arguments to the contrary, it is important for Americans to answer the race question to ensure that we have accurate data about our nation.