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In the late 1970s, a group of one-time liberals began describing themselves as neoliberals. ‘We criticize liberalism,” Charles Peters, editor of the neoliberal Washington Monthly, wrote in 1983, “not to destroy it but to renew it by freeing it from its myths, from its old automatic responses…” Neoliberals often join conservatives in lambasting public programs, […]

The conventional wisdom these days is that government intervention impedes development. Why, then, have Korea and Taiwan grown so fast?

As labor unions see their role diminish, others attempt to take their place as the employees’ representatives. Will it be lawyers, government regulators, or “human resource managers” in the executive suites? Or will the employees gain some direct rep

Robert Bork bids us to be faithful to the Founders and reject heretics who read theory into the law. But, like the Grand Inquisitor, he inwardly betrays his cause.

Rick Surpin wanted to create jobs for the poor by creating enterprises for them. In the process, he created a better model of home health care, too.

The preoccupation with scandal has only aggravated the bureaucratic character of public services. A new “paradigm” for public service needs to emphasize quality of service, flexibility, and receptiveness to innovation–not just probity.

During the past decade, the public dialogue surrounding the federal government’s regulation of the financial system has been shallow and morally smug and, above all, blind to the emerging realities of deep disorder. Despite the pattern of recurring financial crises, most commentators have clung to the comforting bromides of laissez faire taught by the Reagan […]

Many commentators are saying that “extremists on both sides” in the abortion debate need to compromise. But a close analysis of current proposals shows that even “moderate” restrictions impose real harm on many women.