Outside the Beltway

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

Why do most people think success is mostly due to merit?

The danger of saying stupid things online apparently has not sunk in with some people.

Those with the means can buy their way out of more and more of life’s inconveniences.

What is the appropriate response to someone who’s acting like a jerk?

There’s no consensus for European-style social democracy or a Randian libertarian paradise.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Attempts to capture the speech patterns of the American South in written dialogue should be approached with extreme caution.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.