Pedophile Priests: What should be condemned the Pedophile or the Priest?
The appalling story of the pedophile priests deserves all the negative press it has been getting. But is the press critical of them because they are pedophiles or because they are priests? After all, there are many other pedophiles, some of them with their own...Microsoft’s Nose, Technology’s Face
When future policymakers want to understand the law and economics surrounding one of the most watched antitrust cases in history, they will look to “Microsoft, Antitrust and the New Economy,” a recent compilation of essays published by the Milken...Public Relations vs. Reality: The “American” Muslim Council
FBI directors don’t make a habit of breaking bread with organizations their agents may soon be investigating, perhaps even closing. Robert S. Mueller III, however, is about to make precisely this blunder: On June 28, he is scheduled to deliver a lunch talk to...Martha and the Tall Poppies
Why do so many people hate Martha Stewart? How does a home-decorating and entertaining expert with a sweet, wholesome public persona come to be portrayed as a major cultural villain? Consider the past week’s media frenzy over charges that Stewart engaged in...Let’s Not Execute Capital Punishment
Every argument opposing capital punishment — e.g., it fails to deter would-be murderers, it’s administered according to racial/economic bias, it kills innocent people — evades the fundamental basis for why state execution, when used with discretion,...A is Non-A: Barbara Boxer’s World of Development Restriction and “Affordable Housing”
Politics, according to an old adage, is “the art of the possible.” But, during election years especially, politics has increasingly become the art of the impossible. What politicians promise to all the various groups adds up to more than anyone can...A World Without “F’s”
School’s out. What did your children learn this year? Across the country, one poisonous lesson was pumped into the systems of self-esteem-inflated students: There is no such thing as failure. Christine Pelton, a now-famous former biology teacher at Piper High...Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life
If we force Israel to appease Arafat, we will be broadcasting, loud and clear, that terrorism can bring America too to its knees.
