Conservative hopes brighten with the new season “You can cut all the flowers,” observed Pablo Neruda, “but you cannot keep…

By Mike NicholsApril 2013 (Volume 22, No. 1) Josh and Greg Clements grew up in Bloomer atop the seemingly bottomless…

Every now and then, two major talents emerge in close proximity. In 2011, Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder of the…

Shortly after November’s presidential election, America’s pundit class was flush with theories about how President Obama could win every battleground…

It was the otherwise estimable John Stuart Mill who observed that “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people…

Every two years, the Wisconsin Assembly issues an activity book for schoolchildren. The book includes a cartoon called “How a…

Smart can win In the wake of November’s election, national Republicans conducted an autopsylike review of their failures. As Wisconsin’s…

After Nov. 6, conservative ideas are even more critical for the country Writing on the National Review website the day after the…

In the summer of 1997, Wisconsin’s electrical generation system was in trouble. Two of the state’s nuclear generating plants were…

Forty years ago, Howard Fuller was an angry young man working as a community organizer for an anti-poverty program in…

Well, that happened. After a year in which Wisconsin’s conservative revolution seemed to gather momentum — from Gov. Scott Walker’s…

Jeff Ziegler is a “teacher leader” in the Madison Metropolitan School District who has never made any secret of his…

From open primaries to school choice, Wisconsin has led the way for the nation By Warren Kozak What is it…

Following the 2012 presidential election, pundits of all stripes began appealing to retroactive prescience to explain what cost Mitt Romney…

Dane and Waukesha counties embody the bitter partisan divide in the nation By Torben Lütjen Editor’s note: How is it…

The Badger paradox Winston Churchill once described Soviet Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Apparently,…

By Arthur C. Brooks Scott Walker’s victory over Wisconsin’s public sector unions and their political allies is a victory not…

Manitowoc — Kaye Schulz worked at the old Mirro Co. here, mostly as a lathe operator, for almost 35 years. When she…

By Stephen F. Hayes On Aug. 12, 2010, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker munched on a ham sandwich in the…

One of my favorite quotes is from the French economist Frederic Bastiat. In his essay “Ce qu’on voit et ce…