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 certainly a concerted effort is being made by teacher unions … [Read more...] about Is Raising Teachers’ Salaries the Answer?

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 Treaty. This happened when a B-52 bomber, equipped with cruise missiles, … [Read more...] about MEDIA MANIPULATION OF NATIONAL POLICY

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 public willing to elect women to high national office? The number of women in … [Read more...] about WOMEN AND FEMINISTS IN POLITICS

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 lesson of the famous Edgar Allan Poe story, "The Purloined Letter," … [Read more...] about WHY SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE DEPRESSED

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 that 63 percent of Americans, an overwhelming majority, are so content … [Read more...] about THE SUCCESS OF REAGANOMICS#

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 say as for what it did. Koop says: "Persons who have engaged in … [Read more...] about STRANGE PARADOXES IN THE KOOP REPORT ON AIDS

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 become chic for politicians of both parties to call … [Read more...] about White House Report on the Family

No, the 1986 election wasn't a repudiation of Reaganism. Ronald Reagan wasn't on the ballot. No, it wasn't a rejection of tax reform, tax reduction, low inflation, SDI, conservative judicial appointments, or any of the indicia of the Reagan … [Read more...] about WHY REPUBLICANS LOST THE SENATE

"Why can't the wife pursue a career and the husband take care of the house and babies?" That is one of the questions I am most frequently asked by women when I visit college campuses. My stock answer never pleases them. "You don't have to get my … [Read more...] about “MEN AND MARRIAGE”

In the post-Watergate era of full disclosure, it has become mandatory for persons in a variety of occupations to disclose financial self-interest that might bear on their decisions. Sometimes full disclosure is compelled by law and sometimes it is a … [Read more...] about THE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE DISCLOSURE OBLIGATIONS, TOO