Two recent books show the down-side and the up-side of the nation’s mood. The French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel gives the case for pessimism in "How Democracies Perish," while Ben Wattenberg argues for optimism in "The Good News Is the Bad News … [Read more...] about Prophets of Bad News and Good News

Somebody finally came up with the clinching argument against the concept of Comparable Worth. It is unfair to women. That's the argument presented by 15 women who are seeking to intervene in the Comparable Worth lawsuit pending in Chicago where the … [Read more...] about Comparable Worth: Unfair to Women

Journal writing has become a favorite technique in many grades of many schools. On the surface, this sounds like a good exercise to educate students how to write. But that's not the purpose of classroom journal writing. One reader has sent me an … [Read more...] about The Real Purpose of Journal Writing in Schools

Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (known to the public as High Frontier), the non-nuclear, space-based defensive system to enable the United States to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles, is sensible, moral, cost-effective, and … [Read more...] about Can High Frontier Shoot Down its Naysayers

The Sisterhood is Global Institute is the latest excuse for the talk shows and the lifestyle sections to give a new round of publicity to the feminists. Its chairperson, longtime radical feminist Robin Morgan, tells us that the oppressive condition … [Read more...] about Sisterhood Isn’t So Powerful, After All

The radical notion of Comparable Worth is still percolating in a Washington State case on appeal in the Ninth Circuit, but it hasn't scored any points with the U.S. Supreme Court. The high Court last month refused to hear another appeal on the same … [Read more...] about An Incomparably Bad Idea

Commemoration of the religious feast of Christmas reminds us to be grateful that we live in a nation that officially recognizes the birth of Christ by a national holiday. It gives us a chance to recall that our American heritage is religious, not … [Read more...] about Ours is a Religious Nation

Reporters are forever making a distinction between "economic" issues and "social" issues in an attempt to drive a wedge between the several branches of the coalition that elected Ronald Reagan in '80 and '84. They write as though his attention to … [Read more...] about The Family and Economic Policies

If two more state legislatures pass resolutions asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention (Con Con) to consider a Balanced Budget Amendment, Congress will be obliged to issue the call. Could the Con Con then be limited to consideration of a … [Read more...] about Would a Con Con Become a Runaway Convention?

The question now most frequently asked by local Democrats is, "When there are so many fine people in the Democratic Party, how could we allow ourselves to be stuck with Mondale-Ferraro at the top?" The political reality is that the national … [Read more...] about What Happened to the Democratic Party?