Yuval Levin argues that conservatives should start making the case for entitlement reforms now, even if reforms can’t be enacted in the short run. Smashing Magazine offers up examples of stylish e-​​​​commerce designs. Of course, the visual design of an e-​​​​commerce site is properly secondary to its main purpose: sales. New findings suggests that young people are rejecting […]

“[D]emocracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and that it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems.” —F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

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

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.

Secretary of Defense Gates criticizes European governments for failing to provide adequately for their own defense. But it’s little wonder that they don’t manage these things themselves when the United States has for so long offered a security guarantee. There’s a major flaw in carbon-​​​​trading schemes, Jeremy Warner argues: no wealth is actually being created […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from November 9^th to November 29^th.

The concept of rights has been turned upside-​​down in recent years, as the traditional notion of natural rights inhering in the individual has been replaced with a Progressive understanding of rights emanating from the state.