Editorials

Beito and Smith: Tornado Recovery---How Joplin Is Beating Tuscaloosa

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
One city is letting local business lead the revival, the other is imposing top-down rules and waiting for FEMA. Guess which one is rebuilding faster?


Roger Scruton: Want to Save the Planet? Turn Right

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.


A Pyongyang Joke

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
The missile may have fizzled, but so did American policy.


Jenkins: Washington vs. Books

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
What about piracy, low barriers to entry and the fact that literature isn't chopped liver?


Dubowitz and Dershowitz: Tearing Down Iran's Electronic Curtain

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Western companies have provided the technology that enables Tehran's Internet censorship.


The Buffett Tax Loss

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
It turns out this Obama proposal will cost federal revenue.


Winning the War Against Women

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
The marriage tax and other obstacles to economic progress.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Josh Kraushaar on a survey showing independent voters more interested in economic growth than in 'fairness.'


The History War

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
A new history of the Spanish civil war pays special attention to the violence perpetrated by Francoists. Stanley G. Payne reviews "The Spanish Holocaust."


What Will Survive of Us

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Philip Larkin's poems are a protest against the limits of time, says David Mason.


Present at the Creation

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
In "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms," Richard Fortey presents his observations on a diverse collection of organisms, from bacteria to musk oxen, that share a conspicuous number of features with the earliest of their fossil ancestors. Jennie Erin Smith reviews.


Best of the Web Today: Isn't It Romantic?

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Feminism's latest triumph: Boys are afraid of girls.


Five Best Books: Adventurers

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Author Richard Mason on books that memorably depict those who dare—in realms of love, power, society and elsewhere.


Strassel: Romney's Primary Lessons

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Each one of his rivals offers a clue to victory in November.


Noonan: It's Over. What Have We Learned?

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
The GOP still practices primogeniture, but much else has changed in politics.


Todd Zywicki: SpongeBob SquarePants' Last Stand

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Restricting TV ads for food aimed at kids won't help cure the child obesity problem.


Andy Kessler: Patent Trolls vs. Progress

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Before you can sue to protect your discovery, you should first have to make a product or partner with someone who does.


Chris Berg: The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
The disaster is often seen as a tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess. The truth is considerably more sobering.


Hendershott and White: Traditional Catholicism Is Winning

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
There were 467 new priestly ordinations in the U.S. last year, and Boston's seminary had to turn away applicants.


Iran Talks Déjà Vu

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 22:34
Obama gives Tehran reasons to doubt his seriousness.


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