Many have noted how the political mainstream is defined by a narrow spectrum that varies between moderate and extreme forms of intervention into private affairs. In a short essay published in 1949, "The Intellectuals and Socialism," F. A. Hayek gave several reasons why intellectuals,...

The Attack Sequence ON OCTOBER 7, 2001, THE U.S. LAUNCHED A MASSIVE MILITARY ASSAULT ON Afghanistan that effaced its political structure and created an enormous refugee situation. From the middle of 2002, the U.S. threatened to do the same thing to Iraq,...

Consider it a sign of the times: A senior Democrat calls for committing American troops to a new theater of conflict, and the news causes only the gentlest of ripples. The Democrat in question was Senator Joe Biden, and the benighted land was Darfur. “I...

As Michael Rubens Bloomberg frequently points out, he is, at heart, just a middle-class kid who’s guided by the values he learned from his mother and father in Medford, Mass. But since becoming Mayor, Mr. Bloomberg—a committed capitalist who made his fortune in the international...

The end of history, as defined by Francis Fukuyama, an analyst at the RAND Corporation and author of The End of History and the Last Man, was the end of the conflict between the ideologies of Soviet-promoted communism and Western-style democracy,...