Academe has been so politicized, and so radically disconnected from the population, that ordinary citizens no longer trust anything that it produces--even science.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

Patrick Allitt will deliver the November 2010 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

Fred Siegel delivered the December 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

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.

It is culture that creates economics, and not the other way around.

With the death of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, understanding the country's succession process is central to divining the future of this anachronistic, frustratingly cryptic, and often deliberately menacing government.

As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez battles cancer, it's anyone's guess who his successor will be.