Capitalism and Survival of the “Weakest”

Capitalism is sometimes disparaged as “dog eat dog,” a system of “cutthroat” competition and “survival of the fittest.” Such characterizations, however, have little to do with truth. “Dog eat dog” better describes...

Bush’s Real Failure

“If George Bush rebuilds Iraq the way he rebuilds the United States, they’re going to lose 3 million jobs over the course of the next three years,” said Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who’s hoping to run against President Bush next year. Clever...

Let Iraqis Run Iraq

What to do in Iraq? The question is made urgent by the steady attrition of coalition forces, punctuated by seven large car-bomb explosions. The latest of them, on Sunday, killed six and wounded dozens at the Baghdad Hotel. More broadly, the briefly held gratitude to...

WMD Headlines Miss the Real Story

David Kay, the US government’s top weapons inspector in Iraq, reported this month on his team’s first three months of searching for weapons of mass destruction. “We have not yet found stocks of weapons,” he testified, nor anything to...

Christopher Columbus, We Salute You

Most Columbus Days are marked by rabid condemnations of the explorer as a genocidal maniac bent on destroying the peaceful and innocent native peoples who populated the Caribbean islands which Columbus discovered. These condemnations are not only unwarranted but...

Answer to Bush’s Question

President Bush, while being heckled by anti-war protesters in Australia, asked his audience how anyone can believe the world is not a better place with Saddam Hussein out of power. Good question. He asked it rhetorically, not expecting an answer. But there are...

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