The National Endowment for the Arts got off easy in the uproar earlier this year about its tax-funding of obscene art. Another serious charge that should be made against this Ministry of Culture, which purports to decide which art should be … [Read more...] about Where Oh Where Does Our Tax Money Go?
A Feminist’s Complaints
It was with extraordinarily poor grace that Sandra Day O’Connor – of all people – made a speech recently at Washington University in St. Louis voicing the tiresome feminist complaint that women are still the victims of “discrimination” and … [Read more...] about A Feminist’s Complaints
Time To Tell the Feminists Bye-Bye — December 1990
Guidelines to Check Up on Drug Education
Is education the answer to our social ills? Is the drug problem informational or behavioral? Put more bluntly, is classroom drug education a plus, a minus, or a zero? Shortly before Drug Czar William Bennett resigned, someone asked him if drug … [Read more...] about Guidelines to Check Up on Drug Education
Education Reporter — November 1990
Abortion Lessons From the ’90 Election
Abortion was not the “silver bullet” in the 1990 election that some were predicting a few months ago. But it is a knife with an edge that cuts identifiable political patterns. One of the clearest patterns is that the voters consistently reject … [Read more...] about Abortion Lessons From the ’90 Election
Time Buries Women’s Lib
“If there is a theme among those coming of age today – and a theme for this issue – it is that gender differences are often better celebrated than suppressed… The feminist label is viewed with disdain and alarm; the name of Gloria Steinam is uttered … [Read more...] about Time Buries Women’s Lib
How Children Develop Values — November 1990
Education Reporter — October 1990
Turning School Desks into Psychiatrists’ Couches
The fall school semester is in full swing but, instead of addressing the need to raise the 21-year-low of SAT scores, psychiatry has invaded the classroom and children are being inflicted with courses in “self-esteem” or “self-concept.” Many Texas … [Read more...] about Turning School Desks into Psychiatrists’ Couches