In October 2001, I wrote the following: “Having thus identified the enemy, we will be flirting with a world war between Islam and the West, which we must not allow to happen………..our ideological enemy is an extreme sect of radical Islam, not the Muslim religion, the leaders of which should loudly condemn the barbarians who […]
Archives for August 2005
The 1% Difference
This summer, the folks in Dayton, Tennessee are no doubt at least recognizing, if not celebrating, the eightieth anniversary of the Scopes Trial, sometimes popularly dubbed the “monkey trial”, which, largely because of the mythology that has been built around it by Hollywood and the larger than life personalities who were involved, has become the […]
Are We On Europe’s Path?
Three recent policy debates in Congress and two recent research reports should give all of us very serious concern. I refer to the debates on the approval of the CAFTA treaty, the energy bill, and the transportation bill, all of which seemingly had desirable, or at least acceptable, outcomes from the Bush administration’s point of […]