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Analysis and Commentary

Gore and Peace

by Henry I. Millervia TCS Daily
Monday, October 15, 2007

Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz received the 1949 Nobel Prize in medicine for "his discovery of the therapeutic value of [prefrontal lobotomy] in certain psychoses," including depression and schizophrenia...

In the News

A New Look at the Native American Narrative

with Diane Ravitchvia Dartmouth Life
Saturday, October 13, 2007

In the spring of 1805, a one-eyed Shawnee notorious for his loud mouth and his hard drinking fell into a trance...

Analysis and Commentary

Newsworthy Reconsidered

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Friday, October 12, 2007

Which of these two do we Americans know anything about?

Analysis and Commentary

The Last Word

by Kiron K. Skinner with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Condoleezza Ricevia Carnegie Mellon Today
Thursday, October 11, 2007

I recently attended Glamour magazine’s 50th anniversary celebration of its annual Top Ten College Women competition...

Analysis and Commentary

Fatal Facts

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

All that many people know about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the accusations against him by Anita Hill during his confirmation hearings in 1991...

Analysis and Commentary

Meet My Friend Clarence

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas...

In the News

After Sputnik we aimed high, now our aims are low

with John Abizaidvia Newsday
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union stunned the world by orbiting a space satellite, Sputnik..

Analysis and Commentary

New York Times buried the Duke story

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

On page 28 of last Sunday's New York Times, right opposite the page where the obituaries were, at the very bottom was a news item almost exactly the size of a 3-by-5 card...

Analysis and Commentary

Damn Good Yankees

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

The Yankee bullpen has some young pitchers who could throw a baseball through a brick wall — if they had enough control to hit the wall...

In the News

Sputnik heralded space race, focus on learning

with Diane Ravitchvia USA Today
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

As a high school junior in the fall of 1957, Gerry Wheeler knew what he was destined to do the following summer: work in the family milk-delivery business in Peterboro, N.H...

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