Opinion Columns
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In a DuPage courtroom: murder trial coverage — with many restrictionsApr 14, 2013 5:00 am - In a DuPage County courtroom this week, the grand experiment gets its most rigorous test. For the first time, the media will be allowed gavel-to-gavel camera coverage of...
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Margaret Thatcher: moralistApr 12, 2013 5:00 am - Post-World War II Great Britain was the full, fearless application of modern liberalism — what Margaret Thatcher called “those banal and bureaucratic instruments of coer...
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A small step to uphold our contract of trustApr 11, 2013 10:44 am - In journalism lore, names like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass and Janet Cooke carry their own special chill. All three are writers who reached the pinnacles of success i...
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Rethinking the death penalty in AmericaApr 10, 2013 5:00 am - When it comes to the death penalty, the only thing the United States can do is plead the insanity defense. The rest of the advanced world has moved on, but America resol...
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The vigorous virtues of Margaret ThatcherApr 10, 2013 5:00 am - She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margare...
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Burly guards or bipartisanship?Apr 08, 2013 5:00 am - The National Rifle Association has finally issued its recommendations in the wake of the Newtown massacre, where 20 children and seven adults were murdered. The 225-page...
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An incitement to genocideApr 07, 2013 5:00 am - Over the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them unremarkable. Isr...
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A monument to reconciliationApr 04, 2013 5:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. -- It isn’t often that one gets to hear both the strains of “Dixie” and an African drum concert in the same public square. Nor, usually, are statue unveilin...
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A victory for school choiceApr 03, 2013 5:00 am - The school choice movement — which germinated 50 years ago in free-market economist Milton Friedman’s fertile mind — recently counted its largest victory. The Indiana Su...
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Our sordid history on gay marriageApr 03, 2013 5:00 am - We have all become political hacks. We are all engaged in the back and forth of politics, the jot or tittle of the process, the meaningless cable chatter of it all, the ...