SIDELIGHTS News Scraps
By Brandon Bosworth
9/11/01 vs. 11/2/04. Assault vodka. Spooked by democracy. "Pink TV" in France. Palestinian-nonAmerican. American charity. Toothbrush emergencies.
INDICATORS Numbers, etc.
By Karl Zinsmeister, Joseph Light
A special installment on the 2004 election and the Bush mandate.
SCAN Short News and Commentary
By Michael Erwin
The U.S. Cavalry rides into Fallujah. Also: The Electoral College wins again; Unitarians over the border; post-election crack-up; Christians eat lions; Ukrainian democracy.
"LIVE" WITH TAE Michael Medved
Once a left-wing agitator, he took a right turn toward reality, reason, and religion. Now he's one of the leading analysts of politics and popular culture in America.
IN REAL LIFE A Global Journey Across the U.S.
By Brad Herzog
America is less a melting pot than a dot painting masterpiece, defined not by the broad strokes of national media and metropolitan muscle, but by myriad small specks that come together to form the national map.
FLASHBACK President Atchison?
By Bill Kauffman
The names of antebellum Presidents float dreamily across the mind: Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Atchison, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce.... Wait a minute. Atchison?
POLITICO GOP Bottom to Top
By Grover Norquist
The day has finally arrived: The Republican Party is now the natural governing majority party in the U.S.
BEAT THE PRESS All the News That Fits Their Spin
By Chris Weinkopf
Fake National Guard documents. Missing explosives. The draft. No story that made the President look bad was too petty, too contrived, or too false to command the attention of the establishment media.
The Solution
By William Tucker
Here's how to end our reliance on oil exporting despots and whack urban pollution in a single stroke (guess who's against it?).
Never Mind the Population Explosion
By Ben J. Wattenberg
Forget what alarmists say, population growth shouldn't be a central worry of the twenty-first century. The new question of the day is how to cope with population loss.
Suburbia Forever--Get Used to It
By Joel Kotkin
Urbanists, planners, and Greens have long railed against suburbia, and the modern tendency of cities to "sprawl" outward. Yet the trend continues powerfully, both in America and elsewhere. The battle is over: Sprawl wins.
How To Save the Planet (Really)
By Karina Rollins
The list of environmental and health issues awaiting solutions will always be long. Should we focus on the people we can save today, and let tomorrow's problem-solvers fix the challenges of their era?
Environmentalism Should Not Be a Religion
By Michael Novak
A new, less apocalyptic environmentalism must accept the critical lesson of the twentieth century -- that the best way to solve human and ecological problems is not through the planned state, but through enterprise, personal initiative, and freedom.
Diversity on Campus? There Is None
By Karl Zinsmeister
There's no longer any denying that college campuses are the most politically undiverse places in America.
