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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, August 6, 1990 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is perhaps the most notable contemporary specimen of what has been called the Bollinger Bolshevik. An English leftist now immigrated to Washington, D.C., he nevertheless has his work published in the most fashionable American
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 Wall Street Journal, New York Apr 24, 1987 Contemporary U.S. headlines are irritatingly familiar to those of us who grew up in post-World War II Britain. Balance-of-payments problems. Allegedly short-sighted management. Lack of international competitiveness. Decay of basic industries. And, much-advocated
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, March 10, 1989 OSCAR WILDE in a famous phrase described fox-hunting as the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Something similar might be said about the spectacle of the media establishment in full cry on behalf of former New
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 Wall Street Journal, New York Mar 27, 1986 By one of those curious coincidences so common in life in general and publishing in particular, two biographies of J. Paul Getty have just appeared, 10 years after the eccentric oil billionaire's
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Review of Bernard Baruch: the adventures of a Wall Street legend, by James Grant Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, Sept 7, 1984 According to Jim Grant, Dorothy Parker once said that two things confused her: the theory of the zipper and the exact function of
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education The Weekly Standard; Washington; Mar 24, 2003; Jonathan Leaf; The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education by Peter Brimelow (HarperCollins, 320 pp., $24.95). Education these days, someone
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Reviewed Jay Mathews Washington Post March 23, 2003; Page T13 [See also A Closer—if One-Sided—Look at Teacher Unions, March 05, 2003 by Jay Mathews] Young, Gifted, And Black Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students By Theresa Perry, Claude Steele And Asa G. Hilliard III Beacon. 183 pp. $25
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One of many blessings of being liberated from my book on the teacher union is that I get to surf the web more, particularly in response to repeated requests that VDARE.COM establish some sort of weblog. Recently, I actually had enough time to waste a few minutes looking at
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The long-awaited outbreak of the Iraq war is a somber moment, and especially for those of us at VDARE.COM. In the wake of 9/11, we argued that the answer to terrorism within the U.S. was immigration reform and border control. Other articulate voices have been raised in
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WASHINGTON [CT] -Budget season is under way, and driving many proposed increases are burgeoning school budgets, spending plans that often account for more than 70 percent of the total budget. And at the core of the school budget hikes are contractually mandated increases in teachers' salaries and benefits, a
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 10, 2003 Amid a plethora of books, some consensus arises -and it is not cheerful By John E. McIntyre Sun Staff Originally published February 23, 2003 Examining two dozen books on education - charter schools, teacher unions, vouchers, curriculum - I fell prey to
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch Robert Holland is a senior fellow at the Lexington Institute in Arlington., THE WORM IN THE APPLE: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education, by Peter Brimelow; HarperCollins, $24.95. In his 1995 bestseller, Alien Nation, Peter Brimelow warned in the bluntest terms of the danger