Heather Mac Donald Why the Boy Scouts Work A century ago, this outfit figured out how to fire the imagination of inner-city boys with nature lore, ritual, and a code of conduct stressing duty, honor, and manliness. That's why today's elites hate it.
Brian C. Anderson How Catholic Charities Lost Its Soul You don’t have to be a believer to understand that religious values can uplift the poor. Too bad Catholic Charities USA has lost confidence in the power of those values and has embraced the welfare-state faith.
Kay S. Hymowitz What’s Wrong with the Kids? After Columbine, the whole nation—egged on by the press—is asking this question. The answer is disquieting.
Howard Safir & Peter Reinharz DNA Testing: The Next Big Crime-Busting Breakthrough This high-tech advance—the fingerprinting of the new millennium—could slash New York’s crime rate a further 15 percent. Let’s do it.
Peter Huber & Mark P. Mills How Cities Green the Planet By packing people into a small area and by using high-tech foods, fuels, and building materials, cities leave most of the earth free for wilderness.
Sol Stern America’s Most Influential— and Wrongest—School Reformer The nation has eagerly swallowed all of Jonathan Kozol’s prescriptions for what ails the schools. It's a cure that has made public education less healthy than ever.
