January 31, 2005

To a British ear, President George W. Bush’s Inaugural speech Thursday was quintessentially Wilsonian, but from not one but two Wilsons – Woodrow, messianic World War I president of the United States and Harold, dirigiste socialist 1960s British prime minister. Woodrow’s faith in the ability of the United States to solve all problems abroad was […]

The “reform” of social security is supposed to be necessary because in 2038 the Social Security Trust Fund runs out, after which retirees will have to suffer a 28% benefit cut. Big deal – they’ve got 33 years to prepare for it. Much better to suffer that than the trial balloon “reform” floated by Senator […]

The European Union’s first expansion to Eastern Europe last May — 10 countries with a total population of 74 million — seems to be working. Its second, due in 2007, to Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, is too small (34 million) to cause major problems. However, its newly envisioned third expansion, to Turkey and Ukraine, may […]

The Indonesian tsunami tragedy, and its 150,000 casualties, reminds us fortunate Westerners that too many of the world’s people live in places and conditions that we would consider intolerable. The problem is not the world economy, it’s world population, which has doubled in the last 50 years. The Zero Population Growth campaign of the 1970s […]