State of Fear: Michael Crichton and the End of Radical Environmentalism
Crichton’s remarkable book may mark the end of the beginning, and the start of a “new environmental movement” that puts science ahead of ideology.
Soccer Moms Could Teach Indian Ocean Nations Something About Communication
It has been said that lack of communication lies at the bottom of most human problems. This is certainly true of what will likely become [one of] the largest human tragedies in recorded history, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The U.S. Geological Survey and its 120...U.S. Government Should Not Help Tsunami Victims (Updated)
As the death toll mounts in the areas hit by Sunday’s tsunami in southern Asia, private organizations and individuals are scrambling to send out money and goods to help the victims. Such help may be entirely proper, especially considering that most of those...Susan Sontag: Not So Judicious
Writer Susan Sontag, one of America’s most “celebrated” intellectuals, died a few days after Christmas of leukemia. She was 71. “In my view,” she once explained, “the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical,...America The Stingy
“It is beyond me . . . why are we so stingy, really,” said U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland, after the tsunami in southern Asia. ” . . . Christmastime should remind many Western countries at least, [of] how rich we...A Wave of Criticism
The catastrophic tsunami wave that has devastated so much of southern Asia has even killed more than a hundred people on the east coast of Africa, more than 4,000 miles away. Two questions: First, what country has done the most to help the victims of this natural...A Half-Century-Old Attack on Ayn Rand Reminds Us of the Dark Side of Conservatism
TIA Daily frequently links to articles posted at National Review Online, the online companion to National Review, the prominent conservative magazine. I link to it because NRO publishes works by many good authors with important things to say (e.g., Victor Davis Hanson...Are We a Republic or a Democracy?
The framers gave us a Constitution that is replete with undemocratic mechanisms.