Victimhood
The Narrative of Perpetual Palestinian Victimhood by Shelby Steele. The Arab-Israeli conflict, is not really a conflict, it is a war – a war of the Arabs against the Jews. In many ways, this conflict has been a conflict between [...]
Thanksgiving
Barton Goldsmith: Ten Things to Be Thankful For. See here.
Overcome?
Can America Overcome Race? by William Doino Jr. In Randall Kennedy’s new book on the dimensions of race in American politics, Kennedy abandons his usual level-headed analysis for a partisan, and misguided, look at American progressivism and conservatism. More at [...]
Too Free
The Bipartisan War on Liberty by A. Barton Hinkle. To outward appearances, it might seem as though the left and right have never been more at odds. And for the average man in the street, drawn to the Tea Party [...]
Brain-Dead
The Brain-Dead Left by James Taranto. Obamaville’s incoherence is a symptom of intellectual exhaustion. Read column here.
Criminal Class
Sarah Palin: How Congress Occupied Wall Street. Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Throw Them All Out,” reveals this permanent political class in all its arrogant glory. (Full [...]
Higher IQ
Breast-Feeding May Boost Children’s IQ. Children breast-fed longer than six months scored a 3.8-point IQ margin over those who were bottle-fed, according to a seven-year study by researchers at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Poland. Medical epidemiologist Wieslaw Jedrychowski and [...]