Megan McArdle asks, "Are Guns at Protests Really Dangerous?" in order to argue that they aren't: I think carrying guns to protests is entirely counterproductive.  Indeed, I'm not sold on the general virtues of pr...

President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of both sides suggest a mutu...

Narrative Dissonance: What Obama's Cairo Speech Got Wrong, by Martin Peretz If You Thought Raising Money For Your Failing State Was Hard, Meet Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, by...

Sam Stein of the Huffington Post and Al Sharpton are up in arms about an editorial cartoon in today's New York Post. The cartoon, playing off a news story about a rabid chimpanzee who was shot by...

Reading over President Bush's farewell address, I was reminded of an old rule of salesmanship. When you're trying to make a tough sell with a skeptical customer, try to at least get them nodding...