In Depth
These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender “disparities” are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a…
Most analysis (like here or here) trying to set up Uzbekistan as a realist-versus-idealist problem in foreign policy is missing an important point. No matter how the US reacts to the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan’s current government is likely to replace us with the Chinese as an alliance partner. So tolerating their brutal actions makes no…
Here they go again: The Teacher of the Year for the Lucia Mar Unified School District cannot be named within the space of this story. “It’s everyone,” said Branden Leach, president of the Lucia Mar Unified Teachers Association. All 575 instructors in San Luis Obispo County’s largest school district are winners, he said. “We all…
If you ever wanted some clear examples of how far the NEA teachers’ union (with at least the implicit support of their bureaucratic allies in public education) will go to win desired contract terms, read this posting and learn about three inexcusable actions in my home town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Let’s begin with…
If you want another example of how misguided incentives in the public sector lead to bad outcomes, here is another pathetic example (available from the WSJ for a fee): …What’s meaningful about the [highway] bill the Senate passed yesterday…is just how quickly and utterly some Republicans have abandoned all spending principle. The 89-11 Senate vote…
In the heat of intense political warfare, perspective is often the first thing to disappear. Let’s apply that observation to the debate about Tom DeLay, Republican Majority Leader in the US House of Representatives, and see if we can regain some perspective. I have been critical of Tom DeLay even before Howard Dean got into…
Howard Dean, national chairman of the Democratic party, thinks Tom DeLay is guilty until proven innocent: “I think he’s guilty . . . of taking trips paid for by lobbyists, and of campaign-finance violations during his manipulation of the Texas election process,” Dean said. But Howard Dean thinks Osama bin Laden is innocent until proven…
I have had the privilege of working in the healthcare industry since 1983, joining my first biotechnology startup company in 1985. Just like physics had many of its heady years in the early part of the 20th century, the last 30 years have been similarly exciting times in biology. And there is no end in…
The Wall Street Journal published an adaptation from a recent speech by Fouad Ajami about his four week trip to various spots around the Middle East. “George W. Bush has unleashed a tsunami on this region,” a shrewd Kuwaiti merchant who knows the way of his world said to me… To venture into the Arab…
Pew has come out with a new poll in which it developed some new and interesting political typologies. If you want to find out what kind of “political animal” you are, then go here and take the survey. A few of the dual statements with which you are supposed to agree or disagree seemed to…
