Anyone who seeks to provide serious national political leadership today--those elected in 2010 or who seek national office in 2012--owe Americans a plan to escape having to choose between investing in a social welfare state or a system in which our welfare state slowly collapses under its weight. We need tectonic changes, not minor fiddling.

Charles Murray's humane vision has centered on the happiness of the people, from members of the underclass to men of genius.

Ready for the battle in November? You probably think I’m talking about the election. No, I’m talking about the battle around your Thanksgiving table. The dinner conversation will turn to politics and the economy, and it will be your job to stick up for capitalism and free markets.

Is speaking English a fundamental tenet of being American?

There is another reason, a transcendent reason, for which free enterprise matters most—and this is the case we all must be able to make today.

A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology--and the future of American society.

A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology--and the future of American society.

Where is biotechnology taking us? What might life be like in a world in which we can try to satisfy our desires for better children, superior performance, ageless bodies, and happy souls with the aid of powerful biotechnologies? How shall we use our growing powers to screen genes, select the...