Faith’s War Against Worldliness
When stripped of details, Christianity and Islam are identical in essentials.
Improving the Quality of Education
My son learned fractions and decimals when he was in the first grade. He learned them from me as I drove him to school on the Los Angeles freeways, where he became curious about the signs that said things like “Wilshire Boulevard 2 1/4 miles.” At the...In Defense of Supply-Side Economics
In a recent column, I defended supply-side economics from an attack by Princeton economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times Magazine. One of the rare civil criticisms I got came from my friends at TAPPED, the web log of the liberal American Prospect magazine. Their...Howard Dean’s Proposal for Economic Regress
Last month, the WSJ had an opinion piece written by Howard Dean, the Democrat presidential contender. One paragraph exhibited the fundamental fallacy of bad economics: the belief that consumption, not production, is the key to wealth. “As president, my economic...Ban on “Partial-Birth” Abortion Would Be a Blow to Individual Rights
The anti-abortionists’ war against “partial-birth” abortions is a smokescreen to ban all abortions.
