Memory Lapse
The Clinton administration's refugee policy is a victory for welfare statism-and for Castro.
History
The New, New World: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez on culture and assimilation
Washington: Parking Costs
Government ownership reduces every land-use decision to a power play.
Smoking: Put That in Your Pipe
As an act of rebellion against political correctness, pipe smoking is hard to beat.
Education: Lobbying School
Mandatory community-service programs are turning schoolchildren into lobbyists.
Washington: Nyah, Nyah, So There
The Democrats are trying to dismiss critics of Clinton's health-care plan with a few sharp words and a wave of the hand.
Freedom Now I: From Dependency to Dignity
Blacks' self-help efforts could get a big boost from a reoriented civil rights movement, one that turned to demolishing the last of the Jim Crow laws.
