Union Dues
December 21, 2005Joel Kotkin Harry Siegel December 21, 2005It may be tempting to view the New York transit workers' strike as a local story. After all, the local narrative--the nation's largest city...
View ArticleOutside View: Neocon Optimism on Iraq
December 21, 2005Steven ClemonsDecember 21, 2005Happy days are here again. Or so say William Kristol and Robert Kagan, the co-helmsmen of America's neoconservative establishment. In their upbeat Weekly...
View ArticleFocus on the Victims--Not on New Orleans
December 21, 2005Joel KotkinDecember 21, 2005Without question, there is a role for the federal government in the rebuilding of lives in the devastated Gulf Coast. That's where the emphasis belongs--on...
View ArticleBuckley at 80
December 22, 2005James PinkertonDecember 22, 2005If, as Carlyle believed, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men," then William F Buckley--80 in November--rates a place in the...
View ArticleA Public at Risk Will Surrender Rights
December 22, 2005James PinkertonDecember 22, 2005As they attack George W. Bush on the surveillance issue, Democrats are proving themselves to be either really principled or really stupid, at least in...
View ArticleRent-a-Researcher
December 22, 2005Jennifer WashburnDecember 22, 2005Earlier this month, Sheffield University in Britain offered $252,000 to one of its senior medical professors, Aubrey Blumsohn. According to a copy of...
View ArticleRebirth Rising from a Rain of Fire
December 25, 2005Gregory RodriguezDecember 25, 2005Dresden -- Once you've seen its curlicued, domed outline and experienced its uplifting, bright, pastel interior, it's hard to understand why some...
View ArticleAn 'Amen' to Spielberg's Violent Prayer for Peace
December 27, 2005James PinkertonDecember 27, 2005Steven Spielberg, America's most influential filmmaker, doesn't just make movies. He makes statements--and takes risks, as with his latest movie,...
View ArticleMovie Magic: Metapolitics vs. Message Politics
December 28, 2005James PinkertonDecember 28, 2005"If you want to send a message, call Western Union." That's an old joke in Hollywood, dating back to the days when Western Union was a big deal. The...
View ArticleYou choose: Civil Liberties or Safety?
December 29, 2005James PinkertonDecember 29, 2005This will be remembered as the year in which mass surveillance became normal, even popular. Revelations about the Bush administration's domestic...
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