Politics
Collegiate in-breeding
Forty-six years before John Negroponte forced Porter Goss out as DCI, the two were fraternity brothers at Yale.
Society
Society
The Cincinnati Enquirer on Bill Bennett
The Cincinnati Enquirer succinctly states the real problem with Bill Bennett's remarks: The point, which Bennett refuses to understand, is that in his mind black people and crime are intrinsically linked. The defenses of Bennett I have seen focus on the wrapper around this linkage: That Bennett had
Books
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
Most discussions in the United States about France and the French are more heat than light, which makes this enlightening book especially welcome. The authors are two Canadians who moved to France for two years (1999-2001) in order to understand how the French are different from North Americans. Some
Society
"Criminalizing business" and the public trust
Tom Kirkendall has posted several score times this year on the subject of how certain prosecutors, aided by the post-Enron political environment and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley law, have been interpreting questionable business practices as grounds for criminal charges. I agree with Tom that the Enron Task