September 17, 2011

The New Deniers

A characteristic of newspaper editorials advocating more attention to catastrophic global warming is that they rarely offer any evidence in support of the cause.  Rather, they advise, in effect, that the "consensus of scientists" ought to be eno...

September 10, 2011

Father Absence and the Riots

There has been a good deal of media commentary recently on the riots in London and "flash mob" activity in Philadelphia and elsewhere in the U.S.  Although some of the commentary has been sympathetic to the teens involved in the mayhem and has s...