Limbaugh’s Contradictions

Q: Dr. Hurd, I am sure you heard about Rush Limbaugh’s addiction and subsequent hospitalization for prescription drugs. Doesn’t this show that addictive problems are a medical disease, and that Limbaugh’s (and your own) emphasis on choice and...

Princeton: Lots of Money, Little Return

Caveat Emptor. Let the buyer beware. These have always been sensible words when shopping for a car. But these days, sadly, they also apply to charitable giving.Consider the case of William Robertson, who is suing his alma mater, Princeton University, over the...

Capitalism and the Common Man

There are some arguments so illogical that only an intellectual or politician can believe them. One of those arguments is: capitalism benefits the rich more than it benefits the ‘common man.’ Let’s look at it. The rich have always had access to...

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...