When everyone earns an A, give two grades.

Were Americans more free half a century ago? Many conservatives would instinctively answer that they were. But the question is really not so easy.…

Opposition to Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is focusing on his on-the-record criticisms of Israeli policy. Beneath those criticisms, Hagel’s…

Barack Obama, on the night of his election, stretched the truth a bit when he said that the American people had affirmed a belief…

Matt Yglesias finds something to like and something to dislike in Ross Douthat’s recent column. Douthat observes that a robust birthrate is among…

The Slate columnist Matt Yglesias provoked a strange debate on Tuesday. Somehow, a Twitter discussion of the legitimacy of redistributive taxation became an exchange …