SCAN Short News and Commentary
By Christopher Pope, Todd Aiken, et al.
Real numbers on “compassion” by political persuasion. Silicon Valley discovers compromise. America’s new German immigrants. Answering bossy judges. Not-pretty pictures from Iran.
SIDELIGHTS Mirth and Madness
By Brandon Bosworth
Video game B.S. Saddam: Shoot me. Hardworking shoplifters. Poor divorcees. Billion-dollar ring tones.
INDICATORS Numbers, etc.
By Karl Zinsmeister, Winfield Myers
A revisionist take on America’s “engineering crisis.”
"LIVE" WITH TAE "Live" with Shelby Steele Shelby Steele is an independent black intellectual who emphasizes freedom, responsibility, individual accomplishment, and self-sufficiency as the keys to black success in America.
IN REAL LIFE Nice Americans
By James Payne James Payne meets only good Americans along our inland waterways.
BOOK TALK Manly Good or Manly Evil
By Theodore Dalrymple and Brandon Bosworth
Dalrymple reviews Manliness by Harvey Mansfield; Bosworth sips assorted beverages.
Good Sex/Bad Sex
By Jennifer Roback Morse
Healthy and unhealthy forms of sexuality, how to tell the difference, and how we might encourage more of the good stuff and less of the bad in America.
Seduced
By John McWhorter
One of America’s leading thinkers on race describes how radical ideas of welfare, work, and family sent poor black Americans to hell.
Rot From Within
By Mark Falcoff
A literary warning flare, from one generation ago, against “attack” liberalism and U.S. weakness abroad.
The Agent Orange Fiasco
By Michael Newton and Alvin Young
The hysteria over Agent Orange was a scientific disaster, and a needless trauma for individuals who served our country during an unpopular war.