Government Enabling

“On a cold, sunny day not too long ago, I went to see the city’s [San Francisco] new Tenderloin Center for drug addicts on Market Street. It was downtown, an open-air chain-link enclosure in what used to be a public plaza. On the sidewalks all around it, people were...

Abortion Nuances

“You shall not kill,” is a law with ancient roots, mostly known as one of the Ten Commandments. It is a religious idea but a little reflection reveals its critical applications for civic order. Those who fail to accept its demands tend to find themselves serving long...

Women Security

“Alarmist stories in the media about domestic violence often lump together husbands and boyfriends as ‘partners’ who batter women, when in fact a woman who heads her own household is nearly three times as likely to be beaten as a wife is. Separated, divorced, and...