UN Treaty About Women
Australia is currently debating ratification of the “UN Convention (Treaty) on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” It has been ratified by 15 Communist countries,…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
The Shame of Illiteracy
The first time I saw the figure, I thought it was a newspaper’s typographical error. The second time I saw it, I thought it was a wild exaggeration…
In the Name of “Women Courses”
When Ronald Reagan announces even minimal cuts in federal funds for education, a chorus of anguished, orchestrated yelps go up on cue from the media and academia. We…
The Low Fronteir of Unconventional Warfare
The bombing in Beirut should remind us that we face a third dimension in warfare in addition to strategic (nuclear) and conventional (non-nuclear). Usually called unconventional warfare, General…
Costs and Chicanery in Unisexing Insurance
Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) held a hearing recently on his bill S. 372 to “unisex” insurance. (Unisex seems to have become a verb.) He courteously received a dozen…
Fatal Fallacies of the Freezeniks
The rhetoric of the freezeniks appears to be based on six fatal fallacies. 1) “The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are equal threats to peace because they both have…
Discrimination Against “Non-Working” Wives
In fairness to the banks, they didn’t create the discrimination against homemakers. But their full-page and half-page ads running in newspapers all over the country, plus frequent radio…
The Conservative Opportunity Society
The Atlanta airport is a rather overwhelming place if your point of origin or termination is Atlanta; but it is well-designed to enable travelers to change planes efficiently…
Academic Freedom and Anthropology
“Academic freedom” is a favorite slogan of the liberal intellectuals. We’ve been told for several decades that professors and lecturers in universities must have the freedom to express…
Is Sex Dead?
Future historians of social trends, morals and mores may well record that August 2, 1982 marked the day the sexual revolution of the 1970s died. That was the…