Opinion - The New American

How to Buy Gasoline for 20 Cents a Gallon

Has the price of gas hit $4 a gallon yet where you live? As I mentioned in last week’s column, several analysts predict...

Wallis W. Wood March 24, 2012

Change, Death, and Politics

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. March 23, 2012

A few weeks ago, I read and reviewed Ilana Mercer’s Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. A week or...

A Review of “God’s Battalions — The Case for the Crusades”

James Heiser March 23, 2012

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists on the United States, and the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and...

A Review of “The Wind Farm Scam”

James Heiser March 23, 2012

Many criticisms have been leveled against various forms of “alternative energy” in general, and wind power in particular. Some critics have called wind...

What Parents Should Know About “Whole Language” and Other Pedagogical Nonsense

Sam Blumenfeld March 22, 2012

When parents are told that their child is having a “reading problem” in primary school, they usually accept the teacher’s explanation that little...

Race and Rhetoric

Thomas Sowell March 22, 2012

One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York...

Sen. Rand Paul Defends Property Owners from Federal Agencies

Tom DeWeese March 21, 2012

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has just introduced legislation designed to rein in out-of- control federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency...

The ‘Inevitability’ Vote

Thomas Sowell March 21, 2012

Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the inevitable Republican candidate for...

Phones, Jobs & Folly

Ralph R. Reiland March 21, 2012

I wasn't surprised by the latest report from the Commerce Department that shows the U.S. trade deficit, the excess of imports over exports,...

Speech: Bernanke Fails at Transparency, Rails at Gold Standard

Bob Adelmann March 21, 2012

When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke donned his professorial cap and addressed 30 undergraduate students at George Washington University on Tuesday, he claimed...

Racial Quota Fallout

Thomas Sowell March 20, 2012

Many years ago, I learned of an episode in the life of a promising young black man that is relevant to things happening...

Obama Economic Recovery Still Underwater

Bob Adelmann March 20, 2012

For proof that the Obama “recovery” remains unimpressive compared to previous recoveries, Cato Institute scholar Dan Mitchell gathered evidence from a number of...