Imagine what would happen if a first-grade teacher, instead of teaching her students addition and subtraction, attempted first to teach them algebra–or, even worse, in the name of intellectual rigor and in an effort to offer a program of exceptional...
Physics is the fundamental natural science. Its birth in the 17th century heralded man’s coming of age as a rational being. The discovery of the basic laws of nature led to the industrial revolution and modern technology, demonstrating the enormous practical...
How Che ruined the Cuban economy.
When the Koran or a Mullah asks followers to subjugate or kill those who do not uphold the ideas of Islam, the line from civilized dialogue to rule by force is crossed. Someone who is required to “accept” Islam at the point of a gun has not made a moral...
With little exaggeration, the whole of contemporary education can be described as a process of encumbering the student’s mind with as little knowledge as possible.
The Muslim world is storming in violent outrage against the Pope’s recent quoting of a 14th Century emperor of the Byzantine Empire. A NY Times editorial says: “The pope quoted the emperor saying, ‘Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and...
John Lewis’s Solon the Thinker contains a careful reading of the poetic fragments of Solon – not as poetry, but as political thought.
As if things weren’t crazy enough already in the Middle East, here’s the officially sanctioned message in sixth-grade Palestinian textbooks for 11- and 12-year-old kids: “The noble soul has two goals: death and the desire for it.” The goal...
Their war on contraception is not a war against the alleged excesses of the “birth control revolution”–it is a declaration of war against the pursuit of happiness.
Hooters, in an age of globalization, has imported a Japanese concept without paying a single penny for import duties.
The newest crisis of what the left describes as “social injustice.”
For many years I have argued that America’s intellectuals–those learned people with the greatest ability to understand our virtues and articulate a moral defense of our way of life–have long abandoned America. Another piece of evidence of this...
The insanities of Islamo-fascism and of environmentalism are connected.
Colleges and universities will start their fall semester soon. You might be interested in what parents’ and taxpayers’ money is going for at far too many “institutions of higher learning.” At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a mandatory...
Responsibility for the tragic deaths of scores of Lebanese women and children in Qana, Lebanon falls primarily on Hezbollah and its backers, Syria and Iran, not on Israel. To initiate a war against Israel and then use children as shields is so evil and disgusting that...
A demonstration of a newspaper’s hostility to the fundamental values on which the United States was built.
The Times shows itself to be the enemy of human success.
I read an interesting quote the other day, on a church front, which went something like this: “Those who actually seek out ‘pleasure’ rarely find it.” This is a very appropriate slogan for an organization with a religious point of view....
Sacrifice–Sacrifice–Sacrifice. Everyone believes it is the moral thing to do. And no philosopher has been willing to challenge this idea. Except Ayn Rand.
According to the Seattle Public Schools, if you’re an individualist, you’re a racist. On a web page that lists various forms and definitions of racism, the school system defines “Cultural Racism” as: Those aspects of society that overtly and...
The worst thing said in the case involving rape charges against Duke University students was not said by either the prosecutor or the defense attorneys, or even by any of the accusers or the accused. It was said by a student at North Carolina Central University, a...
If there is a smoking gun in the Duke University rape case, it is not about the stripper who made the charges or the lacrosse players who have been accused. The smoking gun is the decision of District Attorney Michael Nifong to postpone a trial until the spring of...
P.E.T. will be described in terms familiar to everyone, not in technical jargon. Some parents may find themselves initially disagreeing with some of these concepts, but very few will find themselves not understanding them. Since readers will not be able to express...
In reacting to the Islamists’ ongoing cartoon Jihad, most commentators have focused on the issue of free speech. This is natural, and necessary, since eradication of free speech is the most immediate risk; and certainly without free speech there can be no defending...
I just finished reading: Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Knopf, 2005. I do not necessarily recommend this book–not because it is bad–but because the content is so disgusting (though factual). Mao is clearly the worst monster in world...
If NYU seriously believed that there were security risks involved, they ought to have provided sufficient security.
“Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers.” I wrote those words days after September 11, 2001, and have been criticized for them ever...
Jonathan Kay [National Post, “From The Academy, Portraits In Pathology”, March 13] is shamefully generous toward leftist academics such as Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky who venomously attack the West and Western values. Such creatures are not motivated...
The truth is that anyone who wants to achieve success––and then keep it, nurture it, and enjoy it––must practice reason and self-interest as moral virtues.
So Crash, one of the most philosophically objectionable movies that I’ve seen in a long time, won yesterday’s coveted Academy Award for “Best Picture.” Crash has two major themes: everyone is a racist, doesn’t know it, and no one is a...
Bennish is free to let loose his diatribes on his own time, but he has no right to demand a captive audience of high-school students.
The resignation of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard University tells us a lot about what is wrong with academia today. When he took office in 2001, Summers seemed like an ideal president of Harvard. He had had a distinguished career in and out of the academic...
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