My friends at the Pope Center for Higher Education raise a most diabolical question today: Why go to college? Why, indeed? Too many people are going to college now. We -- and by "we," I really mean the federal government -- shouldn't encourage more of them.

When Barack Obama dreams of his late father, what does he dream about?

John McCain talked about foreign policy in Los Angeles today. The good news is, McCain is no Bush. The bad news is, McCain is McCain. Forgive my visceral reaction, then, but it can't be helped: Ugh.

A boycott of the Beijing Olympics makes moral sense. The Chinese government is monstrous -- a nasty, repressive regime with a shiny new capitalist veneer. And the point of the games this summer is not to promote universal brotherhood or prod Beijing's communist masters toward freedom so much as showcase emerging Chinese superiority as an authoritarian world power.