by Thomas Sowell | Sep 8, 2007 | POLITICS
Random thoughts on the passing scene: I can’t get as fiercely involved as some other people do in controversies about the origins of human life on earth. I wasn’t there. One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are... by Walter Williams | Sep 5, 2007 | Crime
Should black people accept government’s dereliction of its first basic function, that of providing protection?
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 3, 2007 | POLITICS
It is not just in Iraq that the political left has an investment in failure. Domestically as well as internationally, the left has long had a vested interest in poverty and social malaise. The old advertising slogan, “Progress is our most important... by Keith Lockitch | Sep 2, 2007 | Environment
The root of the opposition to DDT is not science but the environmentalist moral premise that it is wrong for man to “tamper” with nature.
by Walter Williams | Aug 29, 2007 | POLITICS
London’s Times Online recently reported that, according to Vatican sources, Pope Benedict XVI is working on his second encyclical, a doctrinal pronouncement that will condemn tax evasion as “socially unjust.” (See... by Thomas Sowell | Aug 28, 2007 | POLITICS
A whole nation following the tragedy of a mine cave-in in Utah was struck by the further tragedy of another cave-in at the same mine, killing men who had gone underground to try to rescue the miners trapped there. The second tragedy was avoidable — but only if... by Craig Biddle | Aug 27, 2007 | POLITICS
The Bush administration’s plan to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization is worse than a waste of time: It is an outright evasion of the Iranian assault on America. There is a good reason why the New York City Police Department... by Elan Journo | Aug 20, 2007 | POLITICS
Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of “diversity.” Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence... by Ralph R. Reiland | Aug 17, 2007 | POLITICS
Readers of The New York Times got a front-page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy. Hayek...