Editorials

Best of the Web Today: The War on Fertility

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
The left's birth-control fixation is about more than sexual freedom.


Alexei Navalny: The Man Putin Fears Most

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
The rising star of Russia's opposition on his political strategy and why the latest czar is 'trapped' by power.


James Q. Wilson

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
An empiricist with a moral sense—and he could write too.


Arthur Brooks: Social Science With a Soul

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Life for James Q. Wilson was like a roadside curio shop, full of hidden and unrecognized intellectual treasures.


The Export Subsidy Boomerang

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Helping some U.S. companies at the expense of others.


Jenkins: The Putin Puzzle Revisited

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Surrendering absolute power is to become absolutely vulnerable.


James Q. Wilson In His Own Words

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Excerpts from the late social scientist's op-eds in The Wall Street Journal.


Allysia Finley: Can Teachers Unions Do Education Reform?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
California charter-school leader Steve Barr thinks so. But skeptics say unions exist only to protect jobs.


France's Class Warrior

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
François Hollande says his proposed 75% tax rate is 'patriotic.'


Five Best Books: Elizabeth Lowry

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
The novelist and critic on books about mothers of many sorts, from D.H. Lawrence's portrayal of the formidable Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" to Rachel Cusk's candid account in "A Life's Work" of how a baby's arrival affected her sense of self.


Sibling Revelry

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
"The Astaires" tells of how the infectious partnership of siblings Fred and Adele entranced America. Ethan Mordden reviews.


A Passion for Blackness

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
"Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance" chronicles the controversial life and writing of a white author who immersed himself in black culture. James Campbell reviews.


The Nucleus of the Digital Age

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
"Turing's Cathedral" is the story of how a small group of men and women built one of the first computers using five kilobytes of memory—the amount allocated to displaying an icon on a computer desktop of today. Konstantin Kakaes reviews.


A Gingrich-Santorum Alliance?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Could a deal be in the making between Santorum and Gingrich to deny Romney the nomination?


Buying Off North Korea (Again)

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Washington pays for promises from another Kim.


Parent-Trigger Warfare

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Harassment and altered documents at Desert Trails Elementary.


Noonan: We're More Than Political Animals

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
The dangers of struggle, and of trying to come across as normal.


Blunting the Facts

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
Senate Democrats vote against religious conscience.


Tim Geithner: Financial Crisis Amnesia

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 14:11
My wife looks up from the newspaper with bewilderment at another story about people in the financial world or their lobbyists complaining about Wall Street reform.


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