BIRD'S EYE Swan Song
By Karl Zinsmeister
I've gotten to know many of you well over the years. And now I will miss you.
SCAN Short News and Commentary
By Dave Cloud, Jane Mack-Cozzo, Joseph Knippenberg, and William Tucker
Disappearing factory jobs in...China? Wonderwoman. Beltway bigot. Climbing Yucca Mountain. Our nuclear freeze. Long live the Japanese.
SIDELIGHTS Mirth and Madness
By Brandon Bosworth
Elderly Japanese criminals. Muslim astronauts. Dalai Lama dons Doc Martens.
"LIVE" WITH TAE "Live" with Leon Kass
When Leon Kass chose his career, bioethics was a dead field. Today, it's at the heart of many of our society's most vexing controversies. This physician-philosopher is the nation's leading voice on the subject.
IN REAL LIFE Amateur Hour
By Matthew Stevenson
I do not play a lot of golf, but when I do, at least it's with Mark Calcavecchia.
FLASHBACK KZ from A to Z
By Bill Kauffman
A few things you may not know about Karl Zinsmeister...
GEOPOLITICS How Oil Lubricates Our Enemies
By Victor Davis Hanson
Huge petroleum profits empower dictators, subsidize nuclear proliferation, and curtail economic reform.
NOW PLAYING Al Gore Saves the Universe
By Josh Larsen An Inconvenient Truth fails in many of the same ways that Gore failed as a Presidential candidate.
THE TUBE An Ode to the Ad
By James Lileks
There's something my VCR tapes had that DVDs lack: the ads.
BEAT THE PRESS Snow Storm
By Chris Weinkopf
A conservative whirls through the revolving door separating media and politics.
BOOK TALK Reviews of New Books
By Florence King and Brandon Bosworth
King reviews Voices of the Silent Generation. Bosworth reviews snazzy dress.
DIGEST Summaries of Important Research
Edited By Brandon Bosworth
How not to deal with energy prices. Children, with marriage. War myths. The tax-free economy. Chemical checklist.
A Coming Crisis in Suburban Schooling?
By Lewis Andrews
Overly cozy relations between teacher unions, administrators, and schoolboard members with their own kids' interests in mind have led to runaway expenditures in some districts. A backlash may be gathering.
Pictures of the Professoriate
By Mark Falcoff
This novel made fun of campus politics before campus politics became a bloodsport.
Stubborn Cowboys
By Bill Kauffman
Outdoor Americans chronicled by a man of the prairie.
Let's Move Medicine Into the Information Age
By Bill Frist
Computerized recordkeeping could help solve the three biggest problems in today's health care system: high costs, uncertain quality, and lack of patient control.