When the National Education Association—the nation’s largest teachers’ union—addresses the problem of high school dropout rates, you can bet your bottom dollar that their proposals will be more beneficial to the powerful union than to the dropouts. Since

That is the title of an excellent essay in the American Spectator by William Tucker (via InstaPundit). His reflections, which harken back to Thorstein Veblen, were prompted by President Obama’s decision to kill the Keystone pipeline. You really should re

As relevant today as ever: The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law; and some good repute accrues to him from his increased wealth and from h

[This post originally appeared in the current issue of designmind, a business, technology and design magazine published by frog.] Wanna get kids to like carrots? Tell them they're from McDonald's.Well, many sociologists like Thorstein Veblen and Alan Wol

With exquisite irony, Veblen, the "best critic of America that America has produced" (C. Wright Mills), lays bare the hollowness of our canons of taste and culture. Introduction by Robert Lekachman Preface Chapter I: Introductory Chapter II: Pe