Hate Speech from the Left
“It’s hard not to notice that political discussion over the last decade has increasingly degenerated into name-calling,” Brian Anderson wrote in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal last year. “The insults most often come from the left:...Allah Attacks Aristotle: The Philosophical Roots of 9-11
How do you get young Middle Eastern men to fly a jet full of Americans into the side of a skyscraper?
South Africa After Apartheid: Black Rule Alone is No Guarantee for Black Freedom
Moral crusaders have the habit of heading off to their next crusade without bothering to see whether anything went wrong on their last one. During the ’80s, TransAfrica, NAACP, Black Congressional Caucus, Hollywood glitterati, college students, and other groups...America’s “Pretend Friend” Saudi Arabia
Some of the world’s most offensive contemporary fiction is being produced by the government of Saudi Arabia. Consider the mainstream Saudi newspaper Al-Jazeera, which recently asserted that terrorism against the United States does not stem from Islamist...Helen Thomas’s Grandmother Clause
Watch any presidential newscast, and UPI’s Helen Thomas generally asks the first question. But there’s one slight problem. Though Thomas spent more than 50 years as a UPI correspondent, she no longer works for the wire service. And even though she’s...A Petty Tyrant’s Cover-up at Columbine
There are good cops and there are bad cops. Sept. 11 has not changed that fact. We saw the best of the best sacrifice their lives for their fellow citizens when the World Trade Center crumbled. But while we honor the memory of heroic police officers, we must not turn...Arabs Still Wish to Destroy Israel
Last June, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim Madi, made the following statement: “God willing, this unjust state Israel will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased; this unjust state...The Ultimate Resource By Julian Simon
Simon rejects the view that economic production is depleting the earth of natural resources. He argues that the “Ultimate resource” is human inventiveness— and that this asset is never exhausted.
