One of the conditions associated with neurosis is a weakened sense of personal identity. Nations, too, sometimes suffer from not knowing the values they live for and defend. Our rallying cry is “freedom,” but what exactly does that mean? If we turn back to...
My readers know that customer service (or customer no-service) is a running theme throughout my articles. I am constantly aghast at the number of companies who don’t understand that their real business is to provide customer service. You may gain a few customers...
To: 9/11 victims and their families From: Daniel Pipes Subject: Compensation You have been engaged in an unfortunate spat with the U.S. government over the money you deserve for your losses on 9/11, prompting anger all around. Here’s a solution: Forget...
The unacknowledged principle behind the recently passed House of Representatives “campaign finance reform” bill: Established media giants (CBS, ABC, New York Times) have a constitutional right to be free of restrictions on what they air or publish. (This...
With unremitting ferocity, Arab terrorists this weekend again attacked Israelis through suicide bombing and sniper fire–brutally killing 22. Despite such carnage, despite Yasser Arafat’s hollow promises to quell such violence, despite his record of...
Andrea Yates, charged with killing her five young children, is attempting to prove that she was insane at the time and is therefore not responsible. “Insane” in this context is defined by our legal theorists simply as “not knowing right from...
Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American 12-year-olds to convert to Islam? The book in question is “Across the Centuries” (Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edition, 1999), a 558-page history that covers the millennium and a half between the...
Some conservatives may be grumbling about the fact that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle single-handedly killed President Bush’s plan to “stimulate” the flagging economy shortly before the Christmas recess. But they shouldn’t. The president...
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It is hard for those who did not witness it to grasp the depths of irrationalism and violence to which our culture—-or at least its leaders—descended in the late ’60s.
Where violent crime takes place between blacks and whites, the cases overwhelmingly involve a black perpetrator and a white victim.
A “little Caesar,” before it referred to a pizza delivery mascot, used to refer to a petty official — or gangster — with delusions of grandeur, the type who seeks power for the pleasure of abusing it. The Enron investigation is making it clear...
American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America’s original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these...
Skategate, international scandal! Frankly, some of us expected a few eyebrows to raise when, during a retrospective piece on the 1972 Munich Olympics, NBC referred to the terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes as “commandos.” But we digress. Try and...
Many people assume that they can’t accomplish their goals until they have “the right motivation.” They will even seek psychological help in order to establish “the right motivation” before taking any steps towards a goal. This is a...
Don’t make the fatal mistake of believing government can’t do anything right. No organization could expand to the point of commanding a budget in excess of two trillion dollars and be completely inept — not even the bumbling bureaucracy in...
America is suffering from an epidemic of pseudo-diseases, says psychologist Stanton Peele.
When California Republicans vote in next Tuesday’s primary, they will face a much less difficult choice for their party’s nomination for governor than they had just a few weeks ago. Until recently, liberal Republican Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los...
Run to the grocery store this week and buy the Feb. 25, 2002, issue of People magazine. The cover photo is a special, double-paged layout that you must see. No, it’s not a Victoria’s Secret model shoot. No, it’s not the cast of “Friends”...
The bulk of President Bush’s tax cut won’t take effect until at least 2004. It is scheduled to disappear in 2011. The president may have been pushed into this deal politically last year, but it was a mistake. Fortunately, in his State of the Union address,...
It was the final hockey game of a lousy season. We had won the first three games in my senior year at Salem High School, beating Danvers, Revere, and Marblehead, but had then lost the next half dozen games, five of them by a single goal. So we badly wanted to win this...
Fans of the TV show “Seinfeld” will remember an episode in which perpetual loser George Costanza announces a major shift in attitude: From that point on, he will simply “do the opposite” of whatever he would normally do in any given situation....
Even if you’re not a fan of detective stories, you may enjoy this recently discovered Sherlock Holmes story – one that few devotees of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even knew existed. It’s called “The Case of the Missing Surplus.”
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month. The “sins” of any branch of the human race are virtually inexhaustible, but the history of blacks in America includes a lot more than the sins...
Nearly half a century ago the popular economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air,...
On Sunday, February 3rd, Yasser Arafat published an 1,100-word op-ed column, “The Palestinian Vision of Peace,” in The New York Times. In it, he wrote that the Palestinian people yearn to live “as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and...
“When it comes to waging war on terrorism, the president has our total support,” says Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., a member of the House Budget Committee. “But national security and homeland security need not come at the expense of Social...
Jack Welch is arguably the most famous CEO in the world. His 20-year reign as the head of General Electric brought the company from bureaucratic behemoth to dynamic and revered powerhouse. During his tenure, GE market value grew from $13 billion to $500 billion. In...
A donor conference for Afghanistan convened in Tokyo last week had every appearance of being humane, moral, and sensible. Representatives from sixty governments pledged to help rebuild Afghanistan by committing at least $1.7 billion in 2002 and $10.2 billion over the...
Myth #1: “Shays-Meehan is constitutional.” Any bill that attempts to “equalize” citizens’ political speech through criminal and civil penalties for “excessive” or “unfair” speech violates the First Amendment, which...
Over the past couple of years, events like the Internet and more recently, the Enron and Global Crossing debacles, have spurred people to reconsider the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, “EMH.” For those unfamiliar with EMH, here’s a brief textbook...
You may think you know what happened on Jan. 3, 2002 when Israeli Navy Seals seized the Karine A, a cargo ship carrying 50 tons of contraband Katyusha rockets, anti-tank missiles, mortars, mines, explosives, and sniper rifles. You may think the ship’s captain...
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