Jack Criss

May 2008 -- Jim Whiting, The Life and Times of Aristotle (Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2007), 48 pages (hardcover), $19.95.  

May 2008 -- Diana West is the author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007). She writes weekly column for the Washington Times that is syndicated in over 100 newspapers, and, as a CNN contributor, she appears regularly on Lou Dobbs This Week. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the New Criterion and the Atlantic Monthly.

May 2008 -- Whenever the media are not bashing business for being insufficiently green, or for exploiting various groups, they are advocating that businesses be more “socially involved.” This is certainly true with the cries to help education. With increasing frequency, the notion is promoted in op-ed pages and commentaries that businesses should be doing more to help our schools or “partner with” the education system.

Jan/Feb 2008 -- Think playing competitive sports is tough? Sure, the pain of a jarring tackle or the exhaustion after a grueling marathon can push an athlete to the limit. Compared to the business world, however, the pain these individuals go through is slight.

April 2008 -- “We’re looking a robber baron in the face,” said Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood not long ago.

March 2008 -- Recently I was talking to a prominent local businessman about how hectic our respective schedules are. Toward the end of the conversation he said, with an air of frustrated exhaustion, “And on top of my daily business doings, there’s also all of the groups calling for charitable contributions.” He added: “You have to help them, of course.”