Theodore Dalrymple Don’t Legalize Drugs Advocates have almost convinced Americans that legalization will remove most of the evil that drugs inflict on society. Don’t believe them.
Heather Mac Donald Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases It was no favor to the poor when the New York Times’s annual appeal, which for 85 years has voiced the elite view of poverty, decided that the needy were not responsible for their own fate.
Sol Stern How Teachers’ Unions Handcuff Schools No education reform can succeed until teachers’ unions stop demanding work rules that subvert education’s basic building block: the interaction between teacher and students.
Eric Lane Albany’s Travesty of Democracy Democratic lawmaking needs debate, hearings, committee reports—all the machinery that winnows compromise out of the clash of opposite views. You won’t find any of it in Albany.
Peter Hellman Justice Freedman v. New York For over a decade, an activist judge has made a shambles of New York City’s policy for homeless families.
Bruce Davidson Brooklyn Gang: A Portfolio
Amitai Etzioni & Roger Scruton Community, Yes. But Whose? Communitarians present themselves as champions of traditional social ties and opponents of the self-absorbed individual. But are they just apologists for the welfare state?
