American Steel: Hot Metal Men and the Resurrection of the Rust Belt by Richard Preston
This is the riveting story of a company that dared to develop a revolutionary method of steel-production, which the rest of the industry had dismissed as too risky.
Irrationality in Our Legal System
When the sentence for Andrea Yates’ killing her five children was announced, most of the media reported it as a life sentence and some noted that she would be eligible for parole in 40 years. In reality, Andrea Yates can be freed at any time by any present or...Should Genes Be Patented?
On October 2000, I argued in “Who Owns Your Genes?” that naturally occurring genes should not be patented because they are not inventions, but discoveries of what already exists in nature. On January 2001, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued...The Price of Peace “At Any Price” is Death
You cannot make sense of the Israeli-Palestinian war without first making sense of 1993. That year found Israel in reasonably good shape. Its economy was the most powerful in the Middle East. Its military power was respected and feared throughout the region. Its...Cloning In A Free Society?
“Life is creation, not a commodity,” says President Bush, defending his view that all cloning should be permanently outlawed. Life is a creation of whom — and for whose purpose? Do we make our own lives, for our own sakes, or is somebody else doing...A Reparations for Slavery Scam at Tax Time
At tax time this year, some blacks are going to end up paying more than they owe — and not all of it to the Internal Revenue Service. Confidence men are especially targeting elderly blacks in the South, charging them a fee for filing claims for tax refunds based...Ozzy and Busta: MTV’s Drunken Stupor
Once again, MTV is basking in the glow of critical acclaim. This time it’s a cultural breakthrough called “The Osbournes,” a “brilliant” (Time magazine) reality show chronicling the family life of heavy metal has-been Ozzy Osbourne....Israel vs. The Palestinian Dictatorship: Netanyahu’s Speech before the U.S. Senate
These concerns first surfaced with the appearance of a reprehensible moral symmetry that equates Israel, a democratic government that is defending itself against terror, with the Palestinian dictatorship that is perpetrating it.
