What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

Punishing political enemies? So Nixonian, so last century. Yet, 40 years later, the Obama administration found a good government way to pursue the same objective.

The American Constitution uses competition to promote good government and private competition. The founders regarded competitive enterprise as a critical source of prosperity and national strength. The causes of the decline of competitiveness in our political institutions are many and complex. But certainly one of them is a decline in public appreciation for the virtues of competition.

How did Reagan become a successful president and enjoy growing respect even among his ideological opponents?

Grand claims about the transformative power of technology in education are common, yet decades of high school redesign have yielded mixed results. One of the most widely touted efforts to tackle these challenges has been the School of the Future in the Philadelphia School District, created in 2006 through a...

Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to replace Justice John Paul Steves on the Supreme Court, adopts the lazy conventional liberalism of the faculty lounge.

Senate Democrats have destroyed the confirmation process; Republicans should try the Democrats' tactics to return the Supreme Court to the original meaning and purpose of the Constitution.