The Obama Presidency and the End of Affirmative Action?
For many of us, Barack Obama’s presidency has been anything but an occasion for rejoicing.  From its beginnings to the present, and particularly during the last couple of months with the eruption of one scandal after the other, it has been like a dark cloud hanging over the nation’s head. St

posted 7:33:46pm Jun. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Governmentalism, not Statism
No one wants to be thought of as a “statist,” a proponent of “statism,” for the “statist,” it is widely held, is an ardent lover of an omnipresent, omnipotent government.  Conversely, he despises individuality or liberty. Despite the regularity with which “statism” and the like a

posted 4:37:57pm Jun. 13, 2013 | read full post »

The Path Paved by the Patriot Act
Regardless of how it is constituted, whether it is “democratic” or otherwise, no government poses a larger threat to liberty than a government that is at war. War is the mother of all crises and, as Rahm Emmanuel memorably—and rightly—said, crises are pregnant with opportunities for polit

posted 12:50:17pm Jun. 11, 2013 | read full post »

A Response to Rich Lowry's "Conservative" Defense of Abraham Lincoln II
In the latest issue of National Review, Rich Lowry promotes his latest book on Abraham Lincoln while blasting away at those of our 16th president’s contemporary critics on the political right—those to whom he derisively refers as “Lincoln haters.” And here we have it: staring back at him

posted 12:20:52pm Jun. 10, 2013 | read full post »

The Creed: The Worldview of the Contemporary University
On June 6, Richard Cravatts’ article, “No Free Speech for Exposers of Campus Anti-Semitism” was published at Front Page Magazine. Cravatts relays the challenges of Tammi Rossman-Benjamin.  The latter is “a lecturer at UC [University of California] Santa Cruz and co-founder of the AMCHA I

posted 8:30:05pm Jun. 07, 2013 | read full post »