February 10, 2006

Awkward Questions for Justice Breyer

Just this week, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer paid a visit to his high school alma mater, Lowell High School in San Francisco.   He took a tour of the school's campus, which moved in 1962 from downtown San Francisco to its present Su...

December 7, 2005

The New Separate But Equal

Rising test scores and higher academic standards in public schools are usually a cause for celebration among parents of school—age children.  But in the liberal suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, this development is triggering panic am...

August 16, 2005

No more self-flagellation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Now that our annual self—flagellation over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is over, we Americans owe it to ourselves to look back at the wartime events leading up to the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. For 60 years, opponents of President Truman's de...

August 3, 2005

Asian Americans and Affirmative Action

As a civil rights activist and Republican Cabinet member, Arthur Fletcher had a long and distinguished career as an advisor to Republican Presidents from Richard Nixon to George H.W Bush.  Fletcher, who died last month at the age of 80, was know...

July 20, 2005

A Tale of Two Columnists

I can't think of any two papers more different in their approach to news as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Likewise, I can't think of any two reporters more different in their views of the North Korean situation as Nicholas Kris...