In a new book, Alessandro Gisotti offers Italian readers a balanced portrait of Barack Obama's personal faith and an informative review on the influence of religion in U.S. political life.

Sicilian priest and founder of the Italian Popular Party Luigi Sturzo developed a synthesis of classical liberalism, the market economy, and Catholic social thought.

What in the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville could conceivably be thought to offer any guidance for the study of contemporary China?

Higher tax rates on high earners, even if they produce less revenue, are an attempt to centralize power in government and to limit the autonomy and countervailing power of individuals in the voluntary sector. Which is why the liberal bloggers cheer them on.

It is China's underlying civic culture that will reveal how the Chinese address particular policy issues and how China is likely to develop in the future.

No, the government shouldn’t eliminate tax breaks for private universities.

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...