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Now Yale embarrasses the idea

When I was a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I came to the then-tentative conclusion that I would probably never encounter a morally weaker,...

See this film (or stop complaining)

WITH the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood. In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil,...

Obama in Cairo: not bad, but sad

It appears that President Barack Obama decided not to incorporate any of the points on American-Muslim relations I included in my last column, a speech I suggested he...

The speech President Obama didn’t give

This week, President Barack Obama was scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He was likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim...

Why is Europe culturally dying?

Outside of politics, sports, and popular entertainment, how many living Germans, or French, or Austrians, or even Brits can you name? Even well-informed people who love...

Time for Black Caucus to disband

Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus — Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Melvin Watt (D-NC), Michael Honda (D-Calif.), Laura Richardson (D-Calif.),...

When a priest denies the Holocaust

For those of us, Christians and non-Christians, who count themselves as friends of Catholics and their church, these have been a bad few weeks. On Jan. 21, Pope Benedict...

Obama did not inspire, but what did he say?

The night Barack Obama won the election, he gave one of the most inspiring victory addresses I ever heard. The day Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the US, he...

Minorities should express shame, too

Jewish Pride. Black pride. Hispanic Pride. Multiculturalism. Ethnic pride. Minority rights vs. “tyranny of the majority.” For a generation, America has been awash in...

Why reporters, judges and professors are biased

That the news media were biased in the 2008 presidential election is now acknowledged by fair-minded people, left or right. As Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said this...