The two most pro-consumer technological revolutions of the past generation have been the rise of big box stores such as Wal-Mart and the maturation of a global payment card system on which Wal-Mart depends. It's a pity that political progressives are on the wrong side of both these revolutions.

This lecture comes in three parts. First, a bit of general scene setting about the peculiarity of the current debate over Progressivism; second, a look at a few case studies of individual...

Steven Hayward will deliver the January 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

America is still a nation in which a majority of citizens are or have every prospect of becoming property owners, who are less willing to plunder the property of others under the Obama Democrats' programs.

The Rand Paul episode reveals a drastic misreading of history and of the government's role in ending racial discrimination in this nation.

As political name-calling and partisan rhetoric overtakes the media, Jonah Goldberg casts a skeptical eye on the arguments used by today’s journalists, academics and “moderate” politicians. In his newest book, “The Tyranny of Clichés,” Goldberg scrutinizes the oft-repeated claim that liberals are non-ideologues by dismantling the myriad nonintellectual talking points the Left employs in debates.

We are once again--as in the days of the early republic and not in the heyday of the Progressives and the New Dealers--a republic of property owners.

Liberals often speak in seemingly harmless cliches that they hope will penetrate our mental defenses. Here are some of the most egregious examples.