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

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

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

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

Although the national media have not yet discovered it, the hottest issue on the radio talk and call-in programs at the grassroots of America is the battle between those who believe that the public schools have the right to do whatever they want with … [Read more...] about A STUDENT’S BILL OF RIGHTS

Well, well. The "right wing fundamentalists" and the "Bible-thumping parents" who have been pilloried for the last year with the charge that they are "censors" must be howling with laughter. Funny thing, though, we haven't heard a chirp from Norman … [Read more...] about WHO ARE THE CENSORS?

Secretary of Education William Bennett wants Congress and the American taxpayers to take a fresh look at "bilingual education." Indeed, this fresh look is long overdue. In the last ten years, bilingual education has become just another Federal … [Read more...] about Bilingual Education Is a Cheat on Children