The shibboleth "academic freedom" is raised and repeated whenever a conservative criticizes a professor's left-wing pronouncements or a parent objects to offensive lessons in public schools. The liberals proclaim that every professor and public … [Read more...] about ACADEMIC FREEDOM INCONSISTENCIES

"Can feminists bounce back from reverses?" was the provocative headline over a recent news article in U.S. News & World Report. The page detailed a list of recent political, legislative, and litigating setbacks suffered by the feminists, and then … [Read more...] about What Does “Women’s Rights” Mean

Most of the immigrants who came to America prior to 1820 came for freedom, knowing they would have a harder life than they left in the Old World. Most of those who came from 1820 to 1970 came eager to work and build a better economic life than they … [Read more...] about Some Costs of Illegal Immigration

The Geneva Summit was a great stage on which two actors played their roles. They did it with suspense and surprise (the press blackout), plus so much style that the substance was all but forgotten. This was the eleventh summit since World War II, … [Read more...] about REAGAN STARS ON STAGE OF GENEVA SUMMIT

One of the happy by-products of the Reagan years is the fading of a liberal fad of the 1970s which might best be identified as compulsive concern about creeping catastrophes. The liberals worry about many menaces: the ogre of overpopulation, running … [Read more...] about The Myths of Creeping Catastrophes

The New York Times Magazine, which three years ago gave us an article called "Voices from the Post-Feminist Generation," has just put another nail in the coffin of feminism by publishing Betty Friedan's article called "How to Get the Women's Movement … [Read more...] about Betty Friedan and the Feminist Mystique

Seldom has an organization that has done nothing except issue a news release agitated so many people. Pick up almost any newspaper, tune in on local TV newscasts, and you are apt to hear paranoid professors emoting about "intellectual goon squads," … [Read more...] about ACCURACY IN ACADEMIA

If the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 meant anything, it meant a consensus of the American people that the size, power, and money of the Federal Government should be reduced. It meant that the American people had come to the conclusion that … [Read more...] about The Negatives About Affirmative Action

Gerard C. Smith, who was the chief U.S. negotiator of the 1972 SALT I ABM Treaty, has written a self-serving letter to the New York Times attacking the Reagan Administration for the recent Pentagon report concluding that the Treaty does NOT prohibit … [Read more...] about Gerard Smith’s Efforts to Rewrite the Abm Treaty

Americans are proud of the fact that we respect individual rights. But that does not mean you can do whatever you want to do; that's the "law" of the jungle. Where do we draw the line? Your right to swing your fist stops where my chin starts. For … [Read more...] about Aids and the Question of Whose Rights