I am pleased to include the following commentary and pass along an invitation to the 23rd Public Conference of The Texas Lyceum Association, an organization of which I am proud to have been a founding Director 28 years ago as well as a Past Chairman. The Texas Lyceum continues to perform a commendable service to the […]
Archives for October 2008
Rethinking Outdated Institutions
My wife and I just returned from a delightful 12-day tour of New England, one of the stops on which was the beautiful old Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which of course was the site of the international monetary conference in 1944 that established the world monetary system that lasted until 1971 […]
Where is the Apology?
After 55 years, we can finally close the case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed as Communist spies in 1953, but whose guilt has been consistently denied by fellow travelers on the left in this country, in spite of the evidence presented then as well as condemning revelations from KGB files released upon the […]
Stop the Presses
Whatever the backlog of subjects I had in mind for this issue, they have been blown away by events that have overwhelmed even what is shaping up as a watershed presidential campaign. In fact, aside from their respective economic policy strategies if elected, the two presidential nominees are pretty irrelevant to the urgency of the crisis, and both […]