George Kennan: Apostle of Hopelessness
The journal Policy Review has performed a public service by an article in the Summer issue analyzing the ambivalent statements of one of the most influential intellectuals of…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Strange New Courses in Primary Grades
If you thought children in the first three grades of school were spending all their time learning the basics (reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic), you will be surprised to…
PERSPECTIVE ON HIROSHIMA
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the massive media coverage given to the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is designed to fill Americans with guilt about…
THAT WOMEN’S CONFERENCE IN NAIROBI
The notion of American women attending a conference with women from countries all over the world to discuss their common problems is so ridiculous that it could only…
COMPARABLE WORTH COLLOQUIES AMONG CONGRESSMEN
While the headlines of the last few weeks have focused on the budget and its deficit, other debates on economic matters have been going on in the Senate…
Can the Genocide Treaty Be Cleaned Up?
In an attempt to deal with the threats to American rights posed by the Genocide Treaty drafted by the United Nations in 1948 and still pending, the Senate…
U.S. Stakes in Central America — August 1985
The State Department Should Follow Our Election Returns
The day the news hit the fan that the French Foreign Ministry had protested the “unacceptable character” of the outspoken comments by departing U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith, I…
Swiss Civil Defense — The Real Thing
Switzerland’s office of civil defense displays an eye-catching graph showing the ratio between military and civilian victims of war. In World War I, it was 20:1 (20 military…
War Wimps
“War wimps” was the topic of a recent column by Mike Royko, a liberal journalist with a sharp tongue. A war wimp is a tough-talking hawk who, when…