Opinion Journal

Pascal Bruckner: The Ideology of Catastrophe

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we refuse to listen to them.


Paul Moreno: The Unhappy History of Running Against the Supreme Court

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
President Obama might note that in American politics the goal is not to curb the judiciary but to co-opt it.


Amity Shlaes: Tax Policy is About Competition, Not Fairness

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
What John F. Kennedy understood that today's politicians forget.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Historian Joyce Appleby on the culture of capitalism


In Search of Consolation

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
For each of us, life will end at some point. Should that unavoidable fact affect the way we live? If so, in what way? Andrew Stark reviews.


Best of the Web Today: Wild Goose-Step Chase

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Journalists propagate neo-Nazi bluster.


Crovitz: Complexity Is Bad for Your Health

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
If even Supreme Court justices can't fathom ObamaCare, where does that leave the rest of us?


Fang Lizhi and Freedom

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
The late physicist taught Chinese that the search for truth demands democracy.


Cuba After Benedict

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Dissidents who asked to meet with the Pope are now being arrested.


Treasury's Run Around DeMarco

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Tapping TARP to pay Fannie Mae for another housing bailout.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
The late Chinese physicist and dissident Fang Lizhi on the credibility of Chinese leaders.


James Bovard: The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
A 7% hiring quota for government contractors is unfair and unwise.


Kevin Warsh: Who Deserves Credit for the Improving Economy?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
American households are proving to be more prudent than their government.


Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Washington now has added China, India, Brazil and Turkey to its speed dial, along with Europe and Japan. But it will remain the chairman of a larger board.


Peter Funt: The Lost Art of the Live Interview

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Some commentators hardly let guests get a word in edgewise. Others ask questions and then supply the answers.


Venezuela After Chávez

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Analysts now talk of the possibility of a power struggle between the military and armed civilian factions.


The Carnage of the Roses

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
"Fatal Colours" is the story of how the Lancastrians and Yorkists, in 15th-century England, fought in a slogging death-match between armored men wielding chopping weapons and stabbing swords. Tom Shippey reviews.


Kate Mitchell: How Silicon Valley Won in Washington

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
A Democratic venture capitalist describes the small miracle of a pro-growth bipartisan success.


Wendell Cox: California Declares War on Suburbia

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
Planners want to herd millions into densely packed urban corridors. It won't save the planet but will make traffic even worse.


Evolution Revolution

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 05:29
In "The Social Conquest of Earth," Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson examines the intersection of our biological inheritance and our social behavior.


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