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A Great Good Man
Irving Kristol's living legacy
Mr. Policy Hits a Wall
A new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as anything I have read -- and is particularly useful in understanding the struggle over health-care reform.
Lost in a World Without Courtship
There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for whom spring-break sexual liberationism is increasingly costly: men and women in their 20s.
Lehman and the Financial Crisis
The lesson is that institutions that take trading risks must be allowed to fail.
Wall Street 2015
New York's preeminent industry has changed forever
Labor Day and the American Dream
The point is that while college is a good way to gain human capital, it's not the only way. Other skills matter, too: from the ability to communicate and work in groups to old-fashioned virtues such as punctuality and reliability.
Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?
The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues.
