Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard sternly corrects those who say that university faculties are increasingly “liberal”: “Liberalism worthy of the name emphasizes freedom of the individual, democracy, and the rule of law……..What we see on the American campus is not liberalism, but a gutted and gutless “gliberalism”, that leaves to others the responsibility for governance, […]
Archives for March 2007
Lonely Joe Lieberman
“Congress faces a choice…..: Will we allow our actions to be driven by the changing conditions on the ground in Iraq or by the unchanging political and ideological positions long ago staked out in Washington? What ultimately matters more to us: the real fight over there, or the political fight over here?”—Joe Lieberman in the […]
Health Care Fixes—Do’s and Don’ts
If the states are to serve as laboratory models with guidance on how to fix health care finance, there are already some models to avoid. One is in California, which is essentially proposing a plan to tax, spend, and regulate the state’s path to universal coverage, with an enormous additional subsidy from the Federal government. […]
Drucker—Final Thoughts
Recently I commented on one of my favorite thinkers, Peter Drucker, who died late last year. More recently, I read a review essay by Adrian Wooldridge on Drucker’s thought as described in a new book on his life and was struck by the following fact: 7 of the 10 companies that have seen the biggest […]
It’s All about Celebrity
Media critic Brent Bozell calls it the “celebrity asylum”, and that’s a pretty apt description, for in this society increasingly driven by various degrees of voyeurism, the constant 24/7 media obsession with stories on the likes of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears feeds an audience obviously fixated on lifestyles and behavior the attraction to […]