In Depth
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “Pension Fund Politics” in which it made these comments about labor union practices: One of the more dangerous political trends these days is the misuse of public pension assets for partisan ends. So it was encouraging this week to see the Labor Department give a…
John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of America, wrote: We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. He also said: You…
This posting continues a periodic series of postings (here, here, here, here) about some of the strange behavior in the academic community. Roger Kimball weighs in with an editorial entitled “Retaking the Universities: A battle plan.” It is a lengthy piece, worthy of being read in full. Here are some choice excerpts: …In my book…
In email conversation with URI women’s studies professor Donna Hughes — who has published on NRO and FrontPage — about an online course that she’ll be teaching in the fall, “Human Rights and Foreign Policy,” I suggested that conservatives have quite a bit of work to do to reclaim inclusion with issues that are often…
President George W. Bush made two important appearances this week in Riga, Latvia and in Tbilisi, Georgia. At each stop, he spoke about freedom and democracy: Latvia Georgia Here is how a Wall Street Journal editorial described the visits to Latvia and Georgia: …two…moments from the trip better capture its real import. The first was…
Don has already called for an end to the political namecalling. John McCandlish Phillips, a former religion writer for the New York Times, has confronted the particular and recentyl popular application of the term “jihad” in relation to religious people by the predominantly left-wing op-ed writers in the Times and Washington Post (which published this…
Professor Bainbridge has a posting about those pesky students at Roger Williams University here in Rhode Island who have done it again. As Bainbridge writes, “What is it about becoming an academic administrator that causes one to lose not only one’s sense of humor, but also the last shreds of one’s common sense?”
