Art Robinson, a scientist who was profiled in TAS (“A Scientist Finds Independence,” Feb. 2001), and has written for the magazine about global warming, is running for Congress. He confirmed in an email that he filed at the last minute…
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, had an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal drawing attention to the rise of “online hostility” and the “degeneration of online civility.” He (and coauthor Andrea Weckerle) suggested ways in which we can “prevent…
Over the years, commentators have given much thought to the news media’s “liberal bias.” But one issue has been overlooked — press criticism of labor unions. That is because it is hard to spot something that doesn’t appear in print….
The pundits say that supply-side economics is dead. If they mean it is unfashionable, I agree. If they mean that supply-side reductions in tax rates will not help ailing economies, or that increases will not hurt them, I disagree. Anyway,…
I hadn’t seen Michael Ledeen in years when I bumped into him at a party for George Gilder’s new book, The Israel Test. An admirer of Machiavelli, Ledeen has for years focused on Iran. His new book, Accomplice to Evil:…
I’ve been thinking about the huge hi-tech changes that have taken place since I first wrote for The American Spectator. That was in, oh, 1976. Very few people at the time realized just how far reaching the transformation would be-although…
THE PUBLISHING TREND IN THINK TANKS is brevity. This makes sense, for thin books are both less expensive to publish and more likely to be read. If the recent economic crisis has tightened up the scholarly prose, it’s a discipline…
SOMETHING TELLS ME THAT MY NEW BOOK — Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary? — is unlikely to be reviewed. So I shall say something about it here. I have been working on it on and off for years, and it…
For several days, the front pages of our leading newspapers have been filled with stories about how NATO allies bombed two fuel tankers in Afghanistan and accidentally killed some innocent bystanders. The strike, ordered by a German commander and implemented…
Last month I pointed out the ways in which Obama’s policies could threaten the country’s future. Here I look at the issue from the other direction: the extent to which his agenda, or what seems to be his agenda, could…