Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..
Most people have known the story of the Trojan War since its crucial battles were so well sung by a bard we know as Homer. The Trojan prince
December 2007 -- Last summer’s federal criminal charges against professional football player Michael Vick for running an illegal dogfighting
One consequence of Hollywood’s descent into the morass of mindless formula-driven folderol was the rise of independent filmmakers. They’ve
As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the
Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s, famously called television a “vast wasteland.” He wanted
With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties
January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif
April 2007 -- A war of moral values is being fought on an unlikely battlefield: on the sound stages of “24,” the Emmy-winning Fox TV....
I have not read Epstein’s book, but he apparently sees envy as a feeling that varies only in degree, from a mild wish to have what another..
One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs
It’s a natural progression. Americans are generous and don’t wish to impute evil to anyone, so we usually write it off as bluff and bluster
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This dictum threatens to be prophetic in the West’s war against Islamic jihad. Our failure to understand the true origins and nature of jihad is as dangerous as our blindness to our own peculiar cultural weaknesses. As Lee Harris argues in his new book, both failures of knowledge are contributing to the “crash of Western civilization.”
ROM THE ARCHIVES: May 2008 -- Late last February, Michelle Obama spoke to a group of voters in Zanesville, Ohio, which is a relatively poor city whose median household income is less than $40,000 a year and 20 percent of whose adults lack even a high school education. In her conversation with the audience, Obama (Princeton ’85; Harvard Law ’88) warned them, somewhat superfluously it would seem, about the sin of avarice and the camel’s difficulty in passing through the needle’s eye.
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.
May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha
While our bookstores and school library shelves are filled with biographies for young readers on sports heroes and politically correct
May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..
Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..
Most people have known the story of the Trojan War since its crucial battles were so well sung by a bard we know as Homer. The Trojan prince
December 2007 -- Last summer’s federal criminal charges against professional football player Michael Vick for running an illegal dogfighting
One consequence of Hollywood’s descent into the morass of mindless formula-driven folderol was the rise of independent filmmakers. They’ve
As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the
Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s, famously called television a “vast wasteland.” He wanted
With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties
January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif
April 2007 -- A war of moral values is being fought on an unlikely battlefield: on the sound stages of “24,” the Emmy-winning Fox TV....
I have not read Epstein’s book, but he apparently sees envy as a feeling that varies only in degree, from a mild wish to have what another..
One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs
It’s a natural progression. Americans are generous and don’t wish to impute evil to anyone, so we usually write it off as bluff and bluster
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This dictum threatens to be prophetic in the West’s war against Islamic jihad. Our failure to understand the true origins and nature of jihad is as dangerous as our blindness to our own peculiar cultural weaknesses. As Lee Harris argues in his new book, both failures of knowledge are contributing to the “crash of Western civilization.”
ROM THE ARCHIVES: May 2008 -- Late last February, Michelle Obama spoke to a group of voters in Zanesville, Ohio, which is a relatively poor city whose median household income is less than $40,000 a year and 20 percent of whose adults lack even a high school education. In her conversation with the audience, Obama (Princeton ’85; Harvard Law ’88) warned them, somewhat superfluously it would seem, about the sin of avarice and the camel’s difficulty in passing through the needle’s eye.
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.
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.
May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha
While our bookstores and school library shelves are filled with biographies for young readers on sports heroes and politically correct
May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..