Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.

The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History by Vanessa S. Williamson • Basic Books • 2025 • 352 pages • $32 ...

For the past year and a half, the United States has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ensuing economic fallout. Now, Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration’s biggest task, along ...

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again by Yuval Levin • Basic Books • 2024 • 352 pages • $32 No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United ...

Stating the obvious: Ours is a government (and thus a society) in crisis. All three branches of our federal government are led by men who do not believe in pluralism. Compromise is for the weak; ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be growing more powerful with each passing day. A model recently released by OpenAI can earn top scores on law school final exams, and ChatGPT and Gemini can ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

At the start of this school year, a picture of two young girls sitting outside a Taco Bell swept across the Internet. They were not headed to the restaurant for lunch. Instead, they were seen ...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer • Belknap/Harvard University Press • 2014 • 696 pages • $39.95 Once in a great while, a heavy academic tome ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...

When we think about economic growth, we generally think about inventions and technology—from the combustion engine to the iPhone—and about the effects of capital accumulation, like big dams or ...