Speaking of Woodrow Wilson, it is often remarked that it is impossible to understand the past century, not to mention our current world problem spots, without a grasp of the world shaped by World War I and the subsequent Paris Peace Conference, in which Wilson was so heavily influential. For a comprehensive account of the […]
Archives for February 2003
What Are We Waiting For?
If I hear the words “no smoking gun” one more time, I think I’ll throw up. Did we really believe that the UN arms inspectors were going to discover new evidence sufficient to indict Saddam Hussein for weapons possession before a grand jury? And who is the jury, anyway? The UN, which has just appointed […]
On Affirmative Action And Misplaced Priorities
It has been instructive to me that one of the leading stories on the domestic front recently has been the University of Michigan affirmative action cases pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, the briefs filed on them by the Bush administration, and the related question of racial and ethnic diversity in college admissions as […]
Growth Vs. Class Warfare
“The failures of socialism and welfare statism clearly show that those who demand equality at the expense of prosperity will get neither equality nor prosperity.”—Richard W. Rahn, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute. It is axiomatic in economics that increasing the cost of capital (by taxing it) is destructive to capital formation and, conversely, decreasing it is […]
U. S. Borders Out Of Control
The disaster that is the Immigration and Naturalization Service is well documented (see Is E Pluribus Unum Out Of Style?, October 2002), nowhere in higher relief than in the cases late last year of accused D. C. sniper Malvo and the Haitian refugees in Florida. Michelle Malkin has vividly described the bankrupt status of U. […]