Author: Phyllis Schlafly
The Tennessee Case Misnamed Scopes Ii
The press buildup about the East Tennessee textbook case was widely mislabelled “Scopes II” even though it had nothing whatever to do with evolution and bore no relation…
Is Raising Teachers’ Salaries the Answer?
An exchange of letters in the journal Education Week pinpoints the perennial controversy about teachers’ salaries. There seems to be a widespread assumption that teachers are underpaid, and…
MEDIA MANIPULATION OF NATIONAL POLICY
Advocacy journalists in the national news media showed their bias against Ronald Reagan and against U.S. defenses by their reporting about the so-called breaking of the SALT II…
WOMEN AND FEMINISTS IN POLITICS
A lot of ink has been spread across newspapers and magazines since the November election discussing and analyzing women in politics. How did women candidates fare? Is the…
THE SUCCESS OF REAGANOMICS#
Only 37 percent of Americans voted in the November 1986 election. Does that indicate that Americans are disaffected with or undeserving of democracy? On the contrary, that means…
WHY SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE DEPRESSED
Those who are concerned about the depression that seems to be pandemic among schoolchildren today are looking everywhere except the obvious places to identify the causes. Like the…
Marriage: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional — December 1986
White House Report on the Family
Fashions change, in clothes, in entertainment, in legislation, and in political semantics. Since the movement that helped to elect and reelect Ronald Reagan called itself “pro-family,” it has…
STRANGE PARADOXES IN THE KOOP REPORT ON AIDS
The recent report on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop contained some strange paradoxes. The report was as notable for what it didn’t…