The first lesson of international relations is that democracies don’t go to war with on another. In his 1994 State of the Union addresss, President Clinton said that no two democracies have ever warred with each other. The conventional wisdom is that world peace can be achieved through universal democracy. Unfortunately, this is not quite […]

Some day, a politician will offer reforms harmonizing environmental quality with responsible liberty and modest prosperity. This niche in our political ecology is vacant. Incentives to fill it have been weak. This, however, is rapidly changing. Republican representative Sherwood Boehlert of NY said, “There were some valuable lessons learned by some who ignored environmental policy […]