This town belongs to Roberto Suazo Cordova, the president of Honduras. The streets of La Paz are paved, though people in neighboring towns put up with rocks and ruts in dry weather and mud in the rainy season. The Suazo …
Popular culture is sometimes far ahead of academic analysis in identifying important social currents. This is true of the hit song Every Breath You Take, sung by a celebrated rock group known as The Police. It contains these lines:
Smuggle a thousand rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers into the 20 largest American cities, distribute them among known criminals, excops, the hard core of left- and right-wing lunatic sects, and assure a continuous supply of ammunition and tactical intelligence, leaving …
The recent, “third” wave of emigres from the Soviet Union has produced a wealth of valuable memoirs and works of fiction. But, except for a handful of economists, it has been singularly barren of significant contributions to our understanding of …
Thomas Sowell is a very good storyteller. But The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective is a poor book. It has the same strengths and weaknesses as the other three of his books I have read (Essays and …
President Reagan won a smashing victory. Yet despite the magnitude of the Republican triumph the Democratic party was not reduced to smithereens, even though, in some places, only small pieces of it remain, especially in the South and the West. …
For a period of ten years, since the collapse of the “power-sharing” Executive under the impact of the Ulster Workers’ Strike of 1974, the problems of Northern Ireland have seemed virtually insoluble. Political opinion in the two communities in the North …
Of postmortems there will be no end. What follows is less ambitious, a mere personal response written three days after the election. • It was a severe defeat. There are a few consoling features, most of all the failure of …
As soon as Ronald Reagan became president, he set out to deliver private enterprise from the bondage of regulation. As the authors of A Season of Spoils explain, his thoughts on the matter were straightforward: Industrial production results in wealth …
Left-wing literary people talk more these days about criticism than about fiction or poetry or plays. The statement sounds too flat to be true, and it is fair to ask what “left-wing” signifies in the context. I am using it …
With considerable help from Soviet troops as the war drew toward its end, the new [Titoist] regime found, in Belgrade, a permanent home at last. Our exhausted political leaders, famished for creature comforts, rushed to take advantage of the blessings …
The politics of the battered women’s movement brings together a number of vital concerns: the role of the state in intimate relations, feminist analyses of male violence and power, and the ways political activists and professional “social service providers” variously …
A specter is haunting American capitalism—the specter of unrestrained greed. So it appears from a story by Anne Crittenden in the New York Times (August 19, 1984). She reports the fears expressed by many academic and business luminaries ranging from …
Just when you thought you’d heard too many complex arguments about “comparable worth,” Michael Levin, Commentary‘s antifeminist-in-residence, comes along to simplify matters. It’s all a plot to destroy capitalism and establish socialism (Michael Levin, “Comparable Worth: The Feminist Road to …
Last May I attended a lecture by Laurent Fabius, then minister of industry and now prime minister, at one of the fairly exclusive left-wing private political clubs in Paris. The audience consisted largely of academics, civil servants, and political journalists. …
