Month: December 2000
Thought Police
Friday Funnies
Electoral Beauty Myths
It's OK to judge a politician's looks. Just don't confuse them with character.
Liberalism
Friday Funnies
No-Exit Election Hell
Will future ballot counts prove Al Gore really won? It all depends on who's doing the counting.
Where's the golden rice?
A lifesaving grain is being held hostage by anti-science activists
The Innocence of the Seducer
Fredric Wertham lives on in Joe Lieberman and Bill Bennett
Free Ride
Getting people to work
Partial-Birth Homework
Friday Funnies
Capital Letters: Stump Speeches
In which our man in Washington sees Dick Cheney check into an old folks' home, watches Bush and Gore debate via proxies, and meets good-looking Libertarians with full sets of teeth.
Scatterbrained Child Rearing
The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning, by John T. Bruer, Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, by Peter R. Breggin
How to Kill a City
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940, by Max Page, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities, by Fred Siegel