What would Edmund Burke do? Also: using CSS media queries to scale web sites; Europe’s welfare state; and Google’s free web fonts.

Would urban retail perform better with more inviting windows? Plus: Rand Paul and prudence; whether and how to reduce federal workers’ transit subsidies; spending “cuts”; and a video on Arizona’s immigration law.

Arthur Brooks draws the battle lines in today’s culture war; a good-​​looking transit project in Maryland; must-​​reads on urban policy for conservatives; and how Google destroys office productivity.

This has to rank among the better political ads of 2010:

Rand Paul tries his hand at a new conservative fusionism in Kentucky; a new budget simulator; making transit pretty and whether to subsidize it; and why conservatives should engage in urban policy debates.

Almost two years old now, Saturday Night Live’s definitive takedown of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann stands the test of time.

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul eloquently defends capitalism and free enterprise in his Republican primary victory speech:

Families are increasingly living in cities, and conservatives need to offer them solutions; Medicare’s false “savings”; Mother Jones finds much to love in Thomas Malthus; why the NYPD isn’t racist; and whether obesity is really a problem.

Charles Kesler has an important article in the May 17 issue of National Review (republished online over at Claremont Conservative) on the importance of constitutionalism. The penultimate paragraph highlights the importance of restoring the Constitution to its rightful place: In the current crisis, conservative efforts to restore the separation of powers may even be more […]

Tom Ferriss on dealing with critics; historic photos of Dupont Circle; a new case for the gold standard; and whether ATM fees are a good idea.