The Rise of the Compassionate Case
Since the days of Marx at least, scholars of various kinds have tried to delineate socioeconomic classes and use this class analysis to explicate political …
Middle-Class Shrinkage
A recent article by Nancy Cleeland in the Los Angeles Times (Aug. 23), lachrymosely headlined “Rich, Poor Live Poles Apart in L.A. as Middle Class …
El Tigre Sin Cojones
Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), the Tiger of the Senate, who so fiercely attacked corporate corruption, has suddenly lost his testicles. Sarbanes, you will recall, was the …
Free to Choose
Perhaps I’m a dreamer, but I believe that the obvious merits of free choice in K-12 education (often labeled”vouchers”) will eventually defeat the anti-choice propaganda …
Pension Pains
Well, surprise, surprise! The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has gone from a $10 billion surplus in 2000 to a $23 billion deficit in 2005, and …
Good Golly, Ms. Mollies
More evidence of a brain dearth at the L.A. Times surfaced in a July 27 article written by not one, but two Mollies: Molly Selvin …
Blinded by Belief
Daniel Flynn, author of “Why the Left Hates America,” has written an entertaining new book about a number of influential intellectuals who, he believes, were …
Ethics for Everyone
I was recently offered the opportunity to teach a course in business ethics by the department chair. I declined, being a logic and critical thinking …
Boomers, Latinos, and Islamofascists
The current debate over illegal immigration has become very emotional and heated, I suspect in part because nobody has coherently addressed the issue. In my …
Lifestyles of the Rich and Leftist
I have felt for a long time that it is as important to preach what you practice as it is to practice what you preach. …