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These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we refuse to listen to them.

President Obama might note that in American politics the goal is not to curb the judiciary but to co-opt it.

What John F. Kennedy understood that today's politicians forget.

Historian Joyce Appleby on the culture of capitalism

For each of us, life will end at some point. Should that unavoidable fact affect the way we live? If so, in what way? Andrew Stark reviews.

Journalists propagate neo-Nazi bluster.

If even Supreme Court justices can't fathom ObamaCare, where does that leave the rest of us?

The late physicist taught Chinese that the search for truth demands democracy.

Dissidents who asked to meet with the Pope are now being arrested.

Tapping TARP to pay Fannie Mae for another housing bailout.

The late Chinese physicist and dissident Fang Lizhi on the credibility of Chinese leaders.

A 7% hiring quota for government contractors is unfair and unwise.

American households are proving to be more prudent than their government.

Washington now has added China, India, Brazil and Turkey to its speed dial, along with Europe and Japan. But it will remain the chairman of a larger board.

Some commentators hardly let guests get a word in edgewise. Others ask questions and then supply the answers.

Analysts now talk of the possibility of a power struggle between the military and armed civilian factions.

"Fatal Colours" is the story of how the Lancastrians and Yorkists, in 15th-century England, fought in a slogging death-match between armored men wielding chopping weapons and stabbing swords. Tom Shippey reviews.

A Democratic venture capitalist describes the small miracle of a pro-growth bipartisan success.

Planners want to herd millions into densely packed urban corridors. It won't save the planet but will make traffic even worse.

In "The Social Conquest of Earth," Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson examines the intersection of our biological inheritance and our social behavior.