Forced Volunteerism is an Oxymoron

Last month the Palm Beach County School Board was once again considering mandatory volunteerism as a requirement for graduation from high school. Does no one on the Board understand that forced volunteerism is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms? Does no one on the...

The Hate America Reflex

It wouldn’t be a war without a barrage of stones coming at America from the Left.In the December 2002 issue of Z Magazine, self-described as a place where “The Spirit of Resistance Lives,” i.e., chiefly a resistance to capitalism, patriotism and rich...

To End the [Palestinian] Violence

The Palestinian campaign of terrorism rolls on, with 22 people murdered in Tel Aviv earlier this month. And even without counting minor incidents involving rocks and firebombs, the Palestinians average more than 10 attacks on Israelis every day. Which makes this a...

Economics vs. Politics

The familiar chorus of “tax cuts for the rich” has begun to ring out across the political landscape, in the wake of President Bush’s proposals to boost the economy. The time is long overdue to expose some of the fallacies folded up inside that...

Standing Up to Racism

The Bush administration is currently debating whether to file briefs in a pair of affirmative action cases now before the Supreme Court. The cases, arising from admissions policies at the University of Michigan, involve that school’s explicit use of race in...

Is John Galt Venezuelan?

On January 1 Venezuela entered into its second month of a national work stoppage. Close to 90 percent of the working population refuses to participate as producers in an economy that supports the regime of Lieutenant Col. Hugo Chavez. In a disorganized and chaotic...

Equal Time at the New York Times

The New York Times reveals its deep anti-capitalism bias even when it purports to offer a little op-ed space to dissenting views. After a week of relentlessly demagoguing the Bush administrations tax plan as a subsidy to “the rich” — both in...

Grotesque Cynicism on the Draft

Charles Rangel, a Congressman strongly opposed to the war against Iraq, is introducing legislation to bring back the draft. How can this be? Ultraliberal congressmen like Rangel quite openly loathe the military, just like our former President Clinton once admitted....