It really shouldn't come as any big surprise that MSNBC blogger/The Nation media critic Eric Alterman is wrong when it comes to one of his major theses on media bias: "You're only as liberal as the man who owns you." (That's the title of chapter two of Alterman's book "What Liberal Media?") Really? That's not […]
The Mexican government has once again decided that it's good public policy to distribute a guide -- with a DVD -- informing Mexican citizens how to illegally enter the United States. This sort of thing raises barely a whiff of outrage in Washington -- and certainly not from anyone in the Bush administration. It made […]
Arnold Kling has an excellent piece up at Tech Central Station on the Larry Summers controversy. At the University of Maryland, my oldest daughter, Rachel, took a class in which one test included a question in which she was asked to respond to the statement "Gender is socially determined." This was given, not as an […]
I must admint that I was both heartened and disappointed when I read New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent's column this weekend. I was heartened by Okrent's expressed desire for more dialogue with readers than the paper's letters section currently allows. A newspaper can only come out better in the end when it provides […]