Paul Wolfowitz's personnel missteps were merely the pretext for a campaign to discredit his anticorruption agenda.

This AEI event will discuss the role of envy in collectivist and redistributive economic systems.

There are deaths that weigh no more than a feather. Entire peoples who don't count. They have only one right, the right to disappear. They are absent from our concerns and from our television screens, even before the tanks, the bombs, the raids and the landmines reduce them to nothing. The Chechens live in absolute solitude, surrendered to the pleasures of a massacring Russian army.

Any short analysis of Barack Obama's successes and failures in foreign policy must necessarily be incomplete. Is it enough to weigh his undeniable good judgment in ordering Navy SEALS to take out Osama bin Laden against his vacillation when faced with the Arab Spring?

James R. Lilley's review of Stella Dong's Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City.

A Spanish translation of Ambassador Noreiga's "Sinister forces at work in Venezeula power struggle"

Virtuocracy which may be defined as the bureaucratization of personal morality--is on the move again.

Secretary Geithner argued that we have forgotten the reasons that the Dodd-Frank Act was necessary, and that's why the act has become so controversial. What the secretary seems to have missed is that we have learned a lot in the intervening years. The administration's rush to judgment on the financial crisis is a case study in why it would have been worthwhile to wait for the facts.