Watching the television newscasts about the fallout from California's Proposition 13 makes one think that the state is about to collapse and fall into the Pacific Ocean. The impression conveyed is that California voters made a terrible mistake and, … [Read more...] about The Tax Revolt

After a recent speech I made in San Francisco, an angry man accosted me and said, "I hold you responsible, as a member of the media, for the blackout of news about the tragedy of Cambodia." I protested that I had written several columns on the … [Read more...] about The Tragedy of Cambodia

Has America lost its will to fight? When two of our nation's most scholarly statesmen, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, as well as Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn all think so, it is … [Read more...] about U.S. Will to Fight

Now that the passions of spring campus demonstrations have subsided, some of the students who spent last semester protesting their universities’ investments in corporations doing business in South Africa should look at human rights violations closer … [Read more...] about Human Rights in Cuba

France's reaction to the recent invasion of Zaire provides an inspiring contrast to the usual vacillating American response to Communist aggression. The decisiveness and deft footwork of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing contrasts sharply with … [Read more...] about The Francophone Family

For the first time, Red China has allowed its highest diplomat in the United States, Han Hsu, to make a public speech. The occasion was the graduation ceremonies at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Whereas most commencement speakers use … [Read more...] about Red China’s Commencement Pitch

Public opinion polls may be used for either of two different purposes: to record public opinion or to influence public opinion. When used to control public opinion, polls are like computers. If operated with professional integrity, they can digest … [Read more...] about Public Opinion Poll on SALT II

Every President hopes that history will remember him favorably for some great or unique achievement of his regime, although few have such ambitious designs as Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase or Theodore Roosevelt's building of our Panama Canal. … [Read more...] about The Battle For Africa

The high standard of living that Americans enjoy is due not to superior intelligence, natural resources, or quantity of work, but to our unique system of political and economic freedom that encourages individuals to make use of their initiative, … [Read more...] about Deep Sea Mining Incentives

While the rigged trial of Yuri F. Orlov was making a farce of the Helsinki Agreement, elsewhere U.S. negotiators were blithely pursuing still another U.S.-USSR treaty. Yet there is no reason to think that the forthcoming SALT II Treaty will be … [Read more...] about Treaty Watchdog Committees