Obama milked the community organizing angle so hard when he was campaigning. But his heart isn't really in it--if it ever was. And so he's standing by while Congress kills one of this country's crowning examples of what community organizing can really...

Oklahoma State University president Burns Hargis has pulled the plug on a scientific study involving baboons. He says the decision has nothing to do with the animal rights movement--but then other admins say it does. ...despite the university...

You know you live in an upside-down world when teachers actively fight against the interests of kids. From the Weekly Standard: As Christmas grows closer, the hopes of thousands of D.C. schoolchildren and their families are appearing dimmer and...

It was a delight to see Stanley Fish's review of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue. Why? First, he read it rather than fast forwarding to reviling it. Second, he brought with him a clear sense of what makes autobiography autobiographical, specifically its...

Traveling last week for work, I burned through several books on innumerable airplanes: Clint Bolick's Voucher Wars (a strikingly human and accessible account of his landmark work on behalf of school choice), Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (read only if...