| Dec 22, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAfter Peter O’Toole died in December, The New York Times gave him a worthy sendoff. The marvelous English actor’s obituary, which began on the front page, ran several thousand words. At the conclusion of its online version the Times ran this addendum:...
| Dec 18, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyHere’s a jarring headline: “Economic Populism Is a Dead End for Democrats.” That’s the title on a recent op-ed piece written by a couple of longtime political flacks for Wall Street and published, naturally, in The Wall Street Journal. Take it...
| Nov 27, 2013 | Environment / HealthEarth to climate change deniers: The vast majority of Americans are worried enough about global warming to want our government to help stop this scourge. This good news for people who believe science should drive our climate policy comes from a series of surveys...
| Aug 28, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThe year 2000 marked not merely the end of a century but the end of a millennium, a thousand years of history. The media’s desire to fill empty space with naming “the Person of the Millennium” became all the rage. George Will, the unfailingly smug...
