Feb 8, 2012
It has become glaringly apparent that the college tuition bubble is about to burst.At a time of financial exigency, the cost of $250,000 for a four-year education at a private college is beyond the means of most middle class parents.
That story is now very much front page...
Jan 31, 2012
December is the month of bowls, football bowls from sea to shining sea. Some of them with obscure names and others quite familiar such as the Cotton Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl. Christmas has become as much a football festival as a time for religious reflection...
Jan 24, 2012
While public opinion polls suggest a majority of Americans support President Barack Obama s foreign policy, it would seem most adherents are ignorant of the failures in almost every corner of the globe, from Iraq to Egypt, from the Hindu Kush to the Urals.
One of the...
Jan 18, 2012
Attempting to parse the often obtuse language in The New York Times has become an easier task than in the past due, in no small part, to the transparently hostile view of Republicans and the consistently admiring stance toward President Barack Obama.
Let me cite an...
Dec 13, 2011
It is astonishing that those in the West are living through the near extinction of their civilization. For students in the academy today, the Western civilization history course, virtually a standard curriculum offering 30 years ago, has disappeared.
This survey course...
Nov 29, 2011
With riots and demonstrations unfolding in Egypt yet again, it appears that the Arab Spring has morphed into Grim Winter.
Several thousand Syrians have been killed by an Assad regime willing to apply murderous policies against dissidents. Even the post-conflict situation...
Nov 23, 2011
At a 1999 conference sponsored by the Hudson Institute at Weston Park in England, Margaret Thatcher was asked her opinion of the European Union. She replied, It begins with false assumptions and will die of illusions.
Thatcher as one of the advocates of Euro skepticism,...
Nov 15, 2011
For a variety of reasons, including a misguided infatuation with soft power, neither the United States nor Israel has exercised the legitimate right of anticipatory self-defense against Iran.
As a result, Iran s entry into the nuclear club is a virtual fait accompli. In...