Red Ink
The economic consequences of unstoppable entitlement spending are alarming.
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Articles by R. Shep Melnick
Poverty and Policy
Poverty isn't fixed by cash.
A Tale of Two Cities
A review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray
Equality Misunderstood
A review of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
Balance is All
A review of American Politics, Then & Now: And Other Essays, by James Q. Wilson.
The Two Billion Dollar Judge
Courts have not demonstrated the ability to produce the equal educational opportunity that they champion.
Raising the Bar
Teles gives an account of the rise of the conservative legal movement.
The Price of Rights
Constitutional rights to welfare benefits is an idea that refuses to die in the world of academia.
The $10,000 Solution?
A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray
Reading, Writing, and Reform
Disproving 18 common beliefs about public education.
Fat of the Land
Competitive markets are still better at lifting people out of poverty than government programs.
The Lonely Scold
Is Nader's truculence and grating moralism simply the product of the peculiar personality or is it the result of a "public interest" political ideology