Mayor Bloomberg is calling George Steinbrenner a “quintessential New Yorker.”  If so, that’s too bad for New York.  Overlooked in all the encomiums…

[This post has been revised to reflect that the Perryman Group report was commissioned by Americans for Immigration Reform rather than the American Immigration…

Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, Zev Chafets, Sentinel, 240 pages

Ross Douthat had this to say today about why we can’t leave Afghanistan: Why? Because of three considerations. First, the memory of 9/11, which…

The Center for Constitutional Rights has released data, obtained under court order, showing that police in New York City stop and frisk blacks and…

Having presumed to judge bloggers by their Top Ten Influential Books Lists, I think it’s only sporting if I publish my own and…

Cowen, Yglesias, Wilkinson, Douthat, Continetti, Caplan, Kling — who will win the Top Ten Influential Books Game? By Austin Bramwell Earlier this month, Tyler Cowen…

Dismissing as “balderdash and poppycock” my claim that “government planning makes sprawl ubiquitous,” Randal O’Toole of the libertarian Cato Institute* admonishes me and…