David Horowitz is one of premier conservative intellectuals of our day, and integral to his written works are two essential elements: passion and sublime prose. Horowitz received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and his Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author ... Full Article
If not for milestones and anniversaries, I’m not quite sure how much is left for today’s reporter to report. And if not to serve as the veritable conscience of society, then what, pray tell, would his or her purpose be? I suppose that to suggest a reporter’s function is to ... Full Article
The Washington Post reports today on Sens. Specter and Leahy's "barely" concealed "irritation" with H.E. Miers's Responses to Senate Judiciary Committee Questions -- and, thereby, with Miers herself. And though this reinforces the singularly awkward way in which HEM has managed to dissatisfy members of every political interest without, it ... Full Article
( Ed. Note: Charles Murray published an article last week in the Wall Street Journal entitled, "The Inequality Taboo - It's time to start talking about differences between groups of people." Here Martin Heilweil offers his response. ) I got my PhD in 1973, working in a preschool intervention project ... Full Article
ONE OF THE SEVERAL ANGLES IN on the uncomfortable farce which has been the nomination of Harriet Miers is the imbroglio over religion and the Court. What has always been true has now been made publicly clear: the “religious right” has two constituencies—and the appreciation of religiosity without regard to ... Full Article
Wonder if the ACLU will step forward to defend the rights of a student that did not stand during a rendition of the Mexican National Anthem during a school assembly. More importantly, if one cannot compel Jehovah Witnesses to say the Pledge Of Allegiance or make atheists bow their heads ... Full Article
Don’t throw the word “trust” at me now. This was the time for a cookie-cutter, straight-from-the-circuit-court, not-to-be-mistaken-for-anything-but-a-staunch originalist nominee. This was supposed be the time when a candidate for the Supreme Court needed to be brought before the nation that was certain to cause the collective blood vessels of the ... Full Article
