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Republished by VDARE.com on September 25, 2003 The Times (London) August 31, 1989 REUNION, A Memoir, By Tom Hayden, Hamish Hamilton, £17.95 Wordsworth wrote of the Happy Warrior. Tom Hayden can reasonably claim to be the Happy Student Radical, American version, what each of his innumerable 1960s confederates
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Republished by VDARE.com on September 25, 2003 The Times (London) November 8, 1986 NEW YORK–What do they know of English who only The Story of English know? Well, not that much, really. The companion volume to the television series being shown simultaneously in Britain and here in America
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Republished by VDARE.com on September 25, 2003 (Central Park Jogger attack) The Times (London) April 29 1989 NEW YORK—Spring in America goes off like a bomb. Well into April, Manhattan's many parks are brown and sere from winter's crushing grip. Then the temperature begins
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Republished by VDARE.com on September 25, 2003 The Times (London) May 13 1989 NEW YORK—Oscar Wilde, in a famous phrase, described fox-hunting as the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable. Something similar might be said about the American intelligentsia's unanimous enthusiasm for A Bright Shining Lie,
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Two years later, it can be said of the dead of 9/11, in the words quoted at every family gathering when I was a child in the 1950s, with the ghosts of two World Wars silently looking on They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow
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Republished by VDARE.com on August 29, 2003 National Review, Dec 11, 1995 v47 n23 p20(2) THE billowing dust of congressional battle joined now obscures the progress of immigration-reform legislation. The House bill introduced by Lamar Smith (R., Tex.), having survived a misguided attempt to split off its illegal-immigration
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On Labor Day weekend, Americans' fancy resignedly turns to thoughts of education. In much of the country, not withstanding the late-summer heat, toddlers and teenagers have already begun trooping back into the maw of the vast K-12 bureaucracy. And everywhere, students and their fee-paying parents are contemplating college. It
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Well, what he actually says in The Writer's Almanac for August 18 is: "It's the birthday of the first English child born in America: Virginia Dare, born in Roanoke Island, Virginia (now North Carolina) (1587). Her mother was Ellinor White Dare, daughter of the Roanoke
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It's true: as readers of USA Today and Slate.com's kausfiles weblog already know, our Joe Guzzardi is running for Governor of California on the issue of illegal immigration. Because VDARE.COM is not legally able to endorse candidates for public office, his column must be
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Frederick Lynch's Invisible Victims First published in Forbes, May 25, 1992 Vol. 149 Issue 11, p76 [VDARE.COM NOTE: This was written in 1992, but the Supreme Court's recent Michigan decisions make it more relevant than ever. We expect to post several more such pieces over
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The Treason Lobby is worried: "Meanwhile, far off the front page, , the simmering public debate and governmental policy shifts regarding northbound [i.e. illegal] immigration continued to reach levels of intensity and velocity not seen since the glory days of of Pete Wilson.," warned Matt Welch [email him]
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June 23, 2003 The Supreme Court rulings on the University of Michigan Affirmative Action cases came down too early for us to wake Steve Sailer on the West Coast (he works late) but he had predicted the Court's straddle in January: "a seeming compromise that will throw