Media Fictions

“The media are less a window on reality than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.” – Paul Weaver

Ethnic Obsession

“The genius of the civil-rights movement was its advocacy for colorblind policies and a universal standard of conduct. By contrast, today’s diversity experts want all of us, white and nonwhite, to fixate on our ethnic identities, to obsess over accidents of race and...

Mifepristone

“ProPublica claims that only 32 patients have died since 2002 as a result of the abortion pill and lists only 11 sepsis cases. Yet nearly 20 percent of women taking medical abortion drugs experience complications, according to reliable data out of Europe. Furthermore,...

Communist Rights

“As with all communist constitutions, China’s basic law lists rights we in the West take for granted. But at the end of that list is a general defeasance clause: “Citizens of the People’s Republic of China, in exercising their freedoms and rights, may not infringe...

Legacy of Social Policy

“Going  back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, we find that the census data of that era showed that a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than had white adults. This in fact remained true in every census from 1890...