Many nations have aging populations, but none can quite match Japan. Its experience holds lessons for other countries as well as insights into the distinctiveness of Japanese society.

Nick Schulz reviews Animal Spirits.

Universal pre-K is caught in the midst of middle-class and interest-group politics. As usual, the most disadvantaged children may lose out.

For decades, the world has been haunted by ominous and recurrent reports of impending demographic doom.

Diplomacy is not the opposite of war, and war is not the failure of diplomacy. Both are policy tools required in various proportions in almost any serious foreign-policy situation.

The essays in "The Neoconservative Persuasion" are a remarkable introduction to one of the few people who actually liked being called a neoconservative.

Martha Bayles of Boston College and The Weekly Standard delivered the December Bradley Lecture.

“Americans have no culture.” In most of the world, this statement raises neither eyebrows nor objections: people simply assume that violent, vulgar, vitriolic entertainment is a true expression of life in the United States. It was...