The Dodd-Frank Act in general, and in particular its favorite child, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, represent sharp political disputes, as now with bypassing the Senate by the "recess" appointment of its director. But more fundamentally, they represent clashing political philosophies.

In the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, From Wilson to Obama, Steven Hayward revives the original standards of the Founding for judging our presidents and discusses how future presidents should begin taking seriously their oath of office to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution.

If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it's time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt-but not in the way he might think.

At this Bradley Lecture, Charles Murray will discuss how the divergence in class is affecting American life and what we can expect in the future.

A review of Donald T. Critchlow's Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

Letter to the Editor of the New Republic

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is an assistant professor of political science at North Carolina State University, where he has taught since 2001. He is preparing a book-length manuscript titled Religious Liberty and the American Founders. He has also written on religious liberty and the founding, constitutional law, republican government, Locke,...