The Embarassment of the Genocide Convention
When a treaty has remained unratified through the Administrations of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, it seems appropriate to ask why before rejecting the…
When a treaty has remained unratified through the Administrations of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, it seems appropriate to ask why before rejecting the…
Although nations often experience dramatic changes in socio-economic direction and culture, contemporaneous observers usually do not pinpoint the precise moment of change. When we look back with the…
One of the phoniest demonstrations of grandstanding indulged in by Walter Mondale in the late, non-lamented presidential campaign of 1984 was his tirade against Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars.…
Most people are acutely aware of the high taxes they are paying, but few people are aware of the social policies hidden behind those taxes. Nevertheless, those social…
Most people are acutely aware of the high taxes they are paying, but few people are aware of the social policies hidden behind those taxes. Nevertheless, those social…
A Chicago newspaper columnist recently related the story of a 9-year-old girl who went to a slumber party with her friends. The children stayed awake past bedtime, as…
This column has previously itemized many of the materials, techniques, questionnaires, and activities used in public school classrooms to which parents object because they deal with emotions and…
It is amusing the way that media predictions and commentary about Ronald Reagan have been so consistently wrong. The candidate they ridiculed as a Hollywood actor is well…
To paraphrase Mark Twain’s remark about the weather, everybody complains about media bias but nobody does anything about it. In recent hearings held by the Federal Communications Commission,…
The arguments leveled by some well-known scientists at Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars proposal (also called High Frontier) don’t stand up to scientific examination. They are false by factors…