Opinion - The New American

The Social Network: A Picture of the Face Behind Facebook

In early 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Thefacebook.com in a dorm room at the not-so-humble nursery of the elite, Harvard University. The world, for...

Eric Egan October 3, 2010

On Theologians as Blind Guides

Jack Kenny October 2, 2010

Those who would cling to the kind of bliss ignorance brings would be well advised to continue not reading the things written and...

Young Men Think Old Men Are Fools

October 1, 2010

George Chapman observed, in 1605, “Young men think old men are fools.” (1) So do American progressives young and old. They are the...

Transgender Reality Bender

Selwyn Duke September 30, 2010

Boys will be boys … or, at least, that’s how it used to be. Now a few boys will be — or would...

Review of Sowell’s “Dismantling America”

Raven Clabough September 30, 2010

Leading economist and writer Thomas Sowell has a talent for simplifying difficult concepts and applying common sense when analyzing the issues plaguing America...

Prominent British Editor Apologizes for Defense of Fed

Alex Newman September 30, 2010

The high-profile international-business editor of the U.K. Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, shocked and pleased readers with an apology for his past support of the...

Backfiring of Obama’s Economics of “Fairness”

Ralph R. Reiland September 29, 2010

We raise taxes on things we want to discourage, like cigarettes, and we lower taxes on things we want to encourage, like education....

Liberals Confuse Me

Walter E. Williams September 29, 2010

Christine O'Donnell, U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware, has faced considerable criticism and news media attention about her youthful association with witchcraft. Have we...

Learn or Else

Becky Akers September 29, 2010

Barack Obama, that noted educational authority who’s taught public school for decades, has again blessed us with his expertise by touting longer incarceration...