The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved.

Sowell’s analyses of social and political issues are more sophisticated and acute than those of just about everyone who writes on the same topics today.

Meritocracy conceals elite disdain for the lives of ordinary Americans.

The only thing more frightening than annihilation is the possibility that our decadent society could coast on forever.

A review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert D. Putnam

Charles Murray reviews two books about meritocracy.

A review of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks

A review of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller