Friday, April 8. 2005
A Thanks to Ward Churchill
WC raised awareness of the reality of US campuses: "What happened? In the 1960s, universities collapsed “in the face of a little juvenile swagger.” They never recovered, most of them, and now Hamilton College (among many others) is reaping the fruit. Which leads us to the second, and more general, issue raised by the Hamilton follies, an issue we have often adverted to in these pages: the politicization of higher education." Read entire: Click here: Notes & Comments April 2005
Kudlow Defends Tax Cuts
The Vast Left Wing conspiracy
NR Editor's preface: "EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece is excerpted from NR White House Correspondent Byron York's new book, . York's new book details how MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, 527 groups, Al Franken, and other Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations. Among other things, the book discusses MoveOn's origins and how, in the summer of 2004, the group used its Internet organizing power in an attempt to create the impression in the media that there was a wave of anti-Bush anger sweeping the country."
Read piece: Click here: Byron York on The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy on National Review Online
Catholicism
Hugh Hewitt on criticism of Catholicism:
"But there's a second journalistic sin at work in the agenda-driven commentary about the Pope's "failure" to modernize the Church on issues of celibacy, contraception, and the ordination of women. Simply put, most of the American media is simply ignorant of the Pope's critics on the right. There is a valid case to be made that whatever disenchantment existed with John Paul II came more from those Catholics still unreconciled to Vatican II, and deeply distressed about John Paul II's refusal to steer back into the pre-1960 Church." Click here: Criticizing John Paul II
A Professor Speaks
This is why we need heroes like Horrowitz. I think the Anonymous says it all.
"Despite my European background I found myself deeply surprised by the political bias on college campuses here in America. Left-wing bias is almost undetectable among European college faculty compared to America’s academic institutions. The bias that I have encountered has so many facets that I am still encountering new ones. " Click here: FrontPage magazine.com :: Confessions of a Politically Incorrect Professor by Anonymous
City Journal Speaks Truth to Power
How the City of NY messes things up. It's the West Side, now. Steven Malanga:
"But far from encouraging this eruption of the free market, the businessman mayor is out to derail any development of the MTA site that competes with his plan to build a stadium there to lure the 2012 Olympics. In pushing his centrally planned vision, the mayor who was once a CEO seems to have lost faith in the free market and succumbed to New York’s political culture, which reflexively favors its own idea of how the city’s economy should work over the more inventive and spontaneous visions of entrepreneurs. That culture believes that it is okay for government to warehouse valuable land, to employ restrictive zoning that unreasonably limits how the free market can work, and to micromanage economic-development projects with paralyzing inefficiency. Occasionally, the free market fights back and wins, as in Times Square, where market forces overwhelmed a government plan to make the area an uninspiring office district and instead revived it as a bustling entertainment and tourism mecca." Click here: City Journal Spring 2005 | How Not to Develop the Far West Side by Steven Malanga Hillary Meter here
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