Biotech Comes Down With Enronitis
The biotech sector is sick. The industry that promises to cure cancer and AIDS can’t cure itself. And it’s all so sudden. All last year I thought favorably of biotech as a “defensive growth” sector — a group of high-risk/high-reward...A Deadly Error
How well is the Bush administration conducting the war on terrorism? Overall, it deserves high grades, having shown an impressive seriousness of purpose, discipline, and vision. It made winning the war the guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy and almost flawlessly...Who Is the Enemy?
With whom, or what, is the United States at war? The answer to this question has far-reaching implications for strategy, for public diplomacy, and for foreign and domestic policy alike. It may seem that the answer is obvious; but it is not. In the first few weeks...Saudi Arabia: America’s Dysfunctional “Friend”
For Thanksgiving in 1990, former President George H.W. Bush went to Saudi Arabia to visit the 400,000 American soldiers stationed there as part of Operation Desert Shield. The Saudis welcomed Bush, but made it clear that no Christian worship — including grace...Books: The Failure of The “New Economics” An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies by Henry Hazlitt
Hazlitt’s book remains the supreme debunker of the Keynesian system.
A Sign of Things to Come? Expanding the Tobacco Industry Lawsuits Against All Industry
Let’s face it, we’re too damn fat and, this being America, someone should be sued! Professor Marion Nestle at New York University provides the target: “The function of the food industry is to get people to eat more, not less. It’s not...George Washington’s Birthday
For many of the politically correct today, it is enough to dismiss George Washington because he was a dead white male.