Gender War Crimes
Classifying offenses against women as "hate crimes" is a dangerous political game.
Culture
Capital Letters: Coat-Check Time
In which our man in Washington endures Republican victory rituals.
Selected Skirmishes: Sluggers Row
How to turn cultural progress--and good, clean fun--into racist calamity
Reasonable Doubts: Dark Bedfellows
Postmoderns and traditionalists unite against the Enlightenment
The Good Soldier
Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain certainly is a man of honor. But is he a man of principle?
The Bonds of Life
Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules enliven our world--and what sort stifle it?
Selected Skirmishes: Hope Springs Paternal
What medical reporters think inquiring minds don't need to know
Captital Letters: Theaters of Operation
In which our man in Washington encounters show business, Beltway-style, rides uncomfortably into the sunset, and observes "the work of the American people."
Capital Letters: Intergenerational Work
In which our man in Washington engages Social Security, searches for interns, and contemplates incriminating stains
Darwin and Dickens
A new breed of literary crtitics is using evolution to explain literature--and to challenge intellectual orthodoxy.
Tax Reform Schools
If you think tax simplification is difficult in D.C., just try Albany, Annapolis, Atlanta, Austin...
