William Tucker

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means By George Soros (Public Affairs, 208 pages, $22.95) “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live…

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 438 pages, $27.95) Poor Thomas Friedman, he tries so hard. He wants to explain everything — energy,…

Barack Obama’s nomination is a historical event, a watershed in the long saga of America’s racial agony. We seem to have been waiting 150 years for this moment. So why isn’t he sweeping all before him? The place of blacks…

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to overturn a Louisiana statute imposing the death penalty for child rape has caused quite a bit of conversation among conservatives. It shouldn’t. The death penalty is not appropriate for child rapists and in fact…

The Senate is currently debating the Lieberman-Warner Act, which puts a cap-and-trade system on carbon emissions. I know this goes against the grain, but with certain conditions I think Republicans should vote for it. First of all, if done right,…

PARIS — For more than a year I’ve been giving a speech about nuclear energy that proclaims, “The French keep all their nuclear waste from thirty years of producing 80 percent of their electricity in one room at Le Havre.”…

My son has become a Marxist. I’m not that concerned about it. I was one at that age, too. He’s in college in Chicago and got hooked up with a group called the Midwest Workers’ Association, a division of the…

I don’t want to sound too optimistic, but it appears that, in a year when the Democrats were supposed to make their triumphant re-entry into Presidential politics, we may be witnessing the final demise of the New Deal. The Pennsylvania…

Last week two studies published in Science announced what anyone might have suspected all along. “Biofuels,” rather than reducing carbon emissions, are adding to them — possibly by a factor of nearly 100! The two studies may finally puncture the…

I’m an independent journalist and try to be neutral about these things, but I must admit I’m disappointed in Rudy Giuliani’s abrupt slide in the polls. Maybe it’s because I’m a fellow New Yorker, but I truly thought he was…