Woman Up Public Discourse , Mary Rose Somarriba Black, Asian teens less likely than whites to abuse drugs, study concludes Boston Herald , Jay Price Study Finds Signs of Awareness in 3 Vegetative Patients New York Times , Benedict Carey Senate Panel Okays Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE’S an introduction to one issue among several we will discuss. . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is a reprint of an article I wrote for Veteran’s Day in 2009.] “Thank you for your service,” they say, as they shake our hands and pat our backs. We smile and thank them for their gratitude and try to think of something else to talk about. These encounters with strangers . . . . Continue Reading »
On second thought, I’ve decided Perry is getting something of a raw deal (including from me - mea culpa.) Perry spaced on the name of an agency he wanted to eliminate. It was pretty ugly on live television, but that is the kind of stuff that happens to people. Last week I . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Paterno has been fired as football coach at Penn State. It happened at about 10 pm yesterday. News reports say he was notified of his dismissal by phone. The situation evokes grief over all that has been lost, astonishment over the absurd disproportionality of it all, and of course outrage over . . . . Continue Reading »
Many conservative pundits can only say the words “social justice” while sneering. Fortunately, Ryan Anderson isn’t one of them. Here he takes two prominent conservative public intellectuals—Peter Wehner and Arthur Brooks—to the woodshed for the . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few days I’ve been trying, without success, to make sense of the disgusting spectacle at Penn State. My reaction can be summed up in one word: inexplicable. The actions of Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier, Mike McQueary, the rioting Penn State students—all of it is . . . . Continue Reading »
The compliance specialist from Buffalo, N.Y., who became prime minister of Somalia has got nothing on this guy. From King Zog: Self-Made Monarch of Albania (p. 66): The new regime in Tirana was a motley coalition of liberals, Kosovars, opposition beys, and mutineers, united by antipathy to Zogu. . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interesting how-do-you-do. A crisis in the emergency care for the poor may be heading for a free market solution. From the NYT story:Only a few private hospitals have survived in neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and Bushwick to serve poor patients like them. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, Russell E. Saltzman remembers that history is made of common people : Hans and Inga, fictional names, got married. It happened so often hardly anybody took much note of it which is maybe why you never heard about it either. Hans and several thousand others like . . . . Continue Reading »
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