Category: Features

Books abound on the social Right about how to talk to liberals – meaning, of course, not classical liberals but members of the “progressive” Left. …

Playing recently in film festivals is a powerful and provocative documentary about the sorry state of American edu- cation. The film, called “The Cartel,” is …

On January 20, the first news day after the Massachusetts election, the headline in my local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, was this: “Patient Access …

President Obama’s decision to travel to Florida to announce federal grants to the states for high- speed trains on the day after his State of …

I am in a group phone interview with Gary Johnson, the former construction-company owner and libertarian-leaning Republican who was governor of New Mexico for two …

Jerome David (“J.D.”) Salinger wrote what may be the most influential American novel of the 20th century, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951). “Catcher” is …

A memorable phrase in an historic speech sometimes becomes the name by which the speech is remembered: I have a dream. Ich bin ein Berliner. …

What of Barack Obama, one year on? I argued a year ago in these pages (“Same as the Old Boss?”, March 2009), that he was …

I am in India. When I lived and worked here, few things were world-class. One was a private airline company, Jet Airways. Now it is …

At 1:30 a.m. I hopped out of bed, got dressed, and headed out for my 2:00 a.m. date. I had set the alarm and tried …