Political correctness is breaking the hearts of thousands of little girls — and their daddies are having a hard time explaining why multicultural hypersensitivity is more important than their daughters’ innocent fun. Beginning this month, the YMCA’s...
POLITICS
Quotas,Tenure, and Diversity of Opinion in Academia
This is the time of year when millions of parents send their children off to universities. Unfortunately, one price of getting one’s children into a top school these days is that they may be subjected to four years of liberal propaganda. Those in academia like...
A Contract with Black America?
A caller on the Rush Limbaugh show recently had an inspired suggestion for Republicans: Since the “Contract with America” was such a political success back in 1994, why not a Contract with Black America during next year’s election campaign? The...
Workers of the World, End Poverty: Unite for Global Capitalism!
Swarms of left-wing and environmentalist activists plan to demonstrate against free trade and “globalization” next week during the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico. These activists will be united by a single emotion: a...
Mutually Assured Destruction II: New York Eliot Spitzer’s Campaign for the Governorship
The mutual fund scandal that erupted last week is the latest front in vigilante New York Eliot Spitzer’s campaign to climb to the governorship over as many ruined careers as possible. Here are some thoughts on where it could lead. Are there abuses of trading...
September 11th
On this day, the best way to honor the dead is to reassert — and expand — the values that made their lives in this country (and our own) possible. This means rebuilding the World Trade Center — with private dollars and within the capitalist...
Spitting on Their Graves
Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. They’ll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of...
Paul Krugman Unraveled
Paul Krugman’s book, The Great Unraveling, hits bookstores today. Are you surprised that Krugman’s publisher, W.W. Norton, has repeatedly refused my requests for a review copy of the book? Despite this inexplicable omission, America’s most dangerous...
Facing Down North Korea
when we have agreed to the North Korean’s terms in the past, we only find ourselves facing them again later, stronger, and even more threatening.
Manufacturing Will Be Booming
With Congress having returned from its August recess last week, the rhetoric on employment has heated up. In particular, we are hearing more and more about the loss of manufacturing jobs. A Federal Reserve Bank of New York study warns that many have disappeared...
George W. Bush: Caving in to Big Spenders
The Republican Party’s conservative base is becoming increasingly restless with George W. Bush’s unwillingness to restrain the growth of federal spending in any way. Last week brought another shot across his bow, when the Manchester Union Leader, one of...
Mutually Assured Destruction
For all the outrage and indignation voiced by the media and our public servants, the market didn’t seem terribly concerned by last week’s scandalous revelation that a hedge-fund manager had illegally profited at the expense of mutual-fund shareholders....
America’s Timid War on Terrorism
Although American forces impressively deposed the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein, the nearly two-year-long War on Terrorism is, in fact, going badly. The tragedy is that we lack not weapons, nor military prowess, nor bravery; our military is the most powerful in...
Why We’re Losing the War on Terrorism
Let the remembrances begin; in the time since the worst attack in American history, it is proper to remember what happened, to celebrate heroic acts and to mourn the staggering loss of life. There is sadness, yes, but the root of the sadness must be examined, too:...
Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children
We may become the first society destroyed by its own experts — especially experts in fields where there is no expertise that can be verified by facts. Over the past several decades, no one has been victimized more by so-called experts than parents and children....
The Cornerstone of America’s Freedom
This month, America will celebrate the 216th anniversary of its famed Constitution. That is long enough ago that most of us take for granted the rights protected by this governing document. But if given a chance to reflect, what constitutionally protected rights do...
The “New New” Madonna for Mother of the Year?
The open-mouthed kisses between aging pop star Madonna and 15th-minute celebrity clingers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, broadcast on MTV last week, received widespread media attention. The Sapphic spectacle was rightly condemned as vulgar, cynical, and...
The ‘Sweatshop’ Scam: So-Called ‘Sweatshops’ Are Economic Opportunities for the Third World Poor — So Why Are American ‘Progressives’ Opposed to Them?
Well-off American college students and $25 per hour union workers have banded together in a growing movement for what they describe as a “progressive” cause and a battle against “exploitation.” Their goal: to take away economic opportunities...
The Price of Free Money
Just last month I proclaimed the old clich
Bill Janklow Should Step Down From Office
It’s all a big joke to Rep. Bill Janklow, the Republican congressman from South Dakota with a lead foot, a hollow heart, and an ego the size of his Cadillac death-mobile. Conservatives with a conscience should be appalled that the powerful GOP representative,...
Politics & Ideas: The Battle Over Ideas (Lecture 6, Part 4 of 4)
In contrast, however, the interventionist ideas, the socialist ideas, the inflationist ideas of our time, have been concocted and formalized by writers and professors. And they are taught at colleges and universities. You may say: “Today’s situation is...
Foreign Trade Angst: Facts and Fictions
I’ve written a nationally syndicated column for nearly 25 years. Columns critical of Social Security and handouts to farmers used to bring the angry self-serving mail. Now it’s international trade. Let me address some of the issues raised. First,...
Politics & Ideas: The Rise and Decline of Civilization (Lecture 6, Part 3 of 4)
People say that every civilization must finally fall into ruin and disintegrate. There are eminent supporters of this idea. One was a German teacher, Spengler, and another one, much better known, was the English historian, Toynbee. They tell us that our civilization...
Compassion for Criminals, But Not Their Victims
For more than two centuries, the political left has crusaded against the punishment of criminals. Anyone familiar with history can find 18th century writers saying the same things that today’s critics, politicians, judges and the ACLU are saying about how...
Politics & Ideas: The Philosophy of Interventionism (Lecture 6, Part 2 of 4)
Under interventionist ideas, it is the duty of the government to support, to subsidize, to give privileges to special groups. The idea of the eighteenth century statesmen was that the legislators had special ideas about the common good. But what we have today,...
Death of a Dream? On the Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Speech
What is vital to the interests of black “leaders” and the Democratic Party is to keep blacks paranoid and dependent. For that, everything must be blamed on “racism.”
Labor Unions vs. Labor
Some holidays inspire us to celebrate our collective heritage. We watch fireworks on July Fourth. On Memorial Day we remember the sacrifices made by our troops for the advancement of freedom. Labor Day, like the movement it symbolizes, is much younger than those...
Trade Deficits with China: An Economic Analysis
The rapidly rising U.S. trade deficit with China is quickly becoming a political issue. Many members of Congress are warning that China needs to take action, such as raising its exchange rate, to deal with this problem before it leads to protectionist legislation. A...
Politics & Ideas: The Interdependence of Economics and Politics (Lecture 6, Part 1 of 4)
In the Age of Enlightenment in the years in which the North Americans founded their independence, and a few years later, when the Spanish and Portuguese colonies were transformed into independent nations, the prevailing mood in Western civilization was optimistic. At...
Say No to the “Self-Esteem” Pushers
The beginning of a school year is an appropriate time to question how our schools propose to teach our children. Today’s educators, observing widespread self-doubt and despair among the young, believe that the way to get a student to learn is to inflate his...
China War on Space-Based Weapons
August 11, 2003 | | What is China’s position on space-based weapons? Considering the gap between what officials in Beijing say and what they do on the issue, it’s hard to get a straight answer. But let’s look at the facts. For some time now, China...
Manufacturing is Healthy
In a recent column, I argued that the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy is in relatively good shape, despite the sharp decline in manufacturing employment. I clearly touched a nerve with this column. Not only did I receive a great many emails, but my fellow...
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