Has Liberalism become Leftism in America? The two aren’t necessarily synonymous. One could be liberal and not Leftist. But is the distinction less visible today? A key characteristic (perhaps the defining characteristic) of Leftism is the denial of evil. The world, for the Leftist believer, is a struggle between […]

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DO YOU CLOSE THE BLINDS? (From a person who’s there, in the midst…)
The other day, my nine-year-old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to […]

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Spitzer’s Rent
Eliot Spitzer’s gubernatorial opponents have accused him of not offering any actual ideas and, well, New Yorkers are starting to see why: Whenever he does venture a proposal, it turns out to be a bad one. The latest example? Rent control. Mr. Spitzer thinks the city needs more of it. His desire to perpetuate […]

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Pataki’s Vetoes - August 18, 2006 - The New York Sun
Governor Pataki deserves a cheer from New York taxpayers for a series of vetoes of overly generous pension sweeteners and other measures that would have tilted the field in favor of the state’s already powerful public employee unions. One of the bills would have granted […]

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