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Alexis de Tocqueville

Made in America

America still retains its innovative edge over China and India. But as long as Washington continues to handpick winners and losers, our preeminence is in jeopardy.

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

Trading Up

Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.

The Culture Club

Not all cultures are equally conducive to progress.

Poverty and Globalization

Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

The Rocky Shoals of International Law

International law is rapidly evolving a direction thaat threatens American sovereignty. With careful attention, however, the United States can mold the law to its advantage.

Commentary

Russia Recalls France's Revolutionary Slide

Chasms between classes. Croneyism. Critical leaders. A spirit of unrest. Russia in 2011 looks an awful lot like France in 1789.

Viva la Reformers!

Defying conventional wisdom, fresh voices of freedom appear to be coming from the Middle East as of late.

Books & Reviews

The Other France

 Modernizing the Provincial City does not tell us anything we did not already know about how the French became and are becoming what they have been and are.

Globalism and the American Tide

In this new book, Cairncross is a little breathless about the electronic communications that will conjure new worlds into existence. Nevertheless, because her text is well informed and her prose lucid, and because the technological developments ar

Loose Cannon

Whereas the principal aim of American nuclear policy during the Cold War was to deter a strong and aggressive Soviet Union, the nuclear risks we face today stem from Russian weakness.

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May 24, 2013