In his scholarly "A Short Primer on the National Debt," John Steele Gordon gets most things right. Unfortunately, he (like many others) understates by a huge amount, the total federal government debt.

It's racially discriminatory to prohibit racial discrimination. That's the bottom line of a decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

I think that Holbrooke's opinion of himself was justified and that it is ludicrous for ambitious Washington insiders to castigate others for a trait they share.

Irving Kristol's analysis of neoconservatism sensibly influenced a group of catholic intellectuals identified with the expression Catholic Whig Tradition.

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

So, David Sanger had a piece in the NYT last weekend wondering whether there’s a “Romney doctrine.” Of course, he wasn’t really wondering; he knew from the get go what he thought. And luckily for Sanger, he had plenty of Romney advisers to help along his theory.

The latest public opinion data ontoys, virtual thought, and more.

The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.