Columns -- June 1996
- Week of June 2, 1996
- Only One Victim Of "McCarthyism"
- When liberals accuse conservatives of "McCarthyism," they're engaging in the very practice they claim to abhor. They're employing the infamous smear tactics of innuendo and guilt by association.
- Lots Of Choices, But Little Learning
- "In demolishing the notion of a relatively stable body of knowledge, a traditional set of disciplines to which developing thinkers must apprentice themselves, [American universities] have invited their students, though half-formed and ill educated, to indulge in a fantasy of their own extravagant powers."
- A New "Great Awakening" In America
- There have been three dramatic religious revivals in American history, and some social commentators claim that we are, right now, in the midst of a fourth.
- Week of June 9, 1996
- Kinsey Research Needs Investigating
- Sex education programs in schools across America are based in part on studies published by Alfred Kinsey in 1948 and 1953 called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
- Sex Education Or Sexual Seduction?
- The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) applauds the dramatic increase in the number of states that require or recommend sex education in public schools.
- When Students Become Guinea Pigs
- The education establishment is kicking up a ruckus over a bill that received nearly unanimous support in the House of Representatives. They're determined to stop the Senate from passing this sensible legislation.
- Week of June 16, 1996
- What's The Point Of Foreign Aid?
- The Clinton administration would have us believe that U.S. foreign aid promotes American interests around the globe, but this simply isn't so. Foreign aid is a luxury we can ill afford, especially when it has adverse consequences.
- The True History Of Orphanages
- Orphanages filled a void in America for more than a hundred years -- until meddling do-gooders decided that these benevolent institutions were inhumane!
- Welfare Ignores Spiritual Poverty
- Man does not live by bread alone. Why, then, does our welfare system offer nothing more?
- Week of June 23, 1996
- Marriage: No Single Thing Like It!
- You'd never know it from watching the television show of the same name, but being "married with children" is the happiest, healthiest, and most fulfilling lifestyle a person can have.
- Ignoring The Bedrock Of Wedlock
- A welfare reform plan proposed by the nation's governors "blithely ignores America's number-one social problem: the catastrophic rise of illegitimacy."
- One Marriage Not Made In Heaven
- Hasn't the institution of marriage been undermined enough already? Do we really want to risk finishing it off by authorizing same-sex unions?
- Week of June 30, 1996
- Anticipating "The Pacific Century"
- It's become faddish in our lifetimes to name each decade according to its defining characteristic. One presumptuous prognosticator has preempted this process by naming an entire century, before it begins.
- Big Government Destined For Ashbin
- Containing the threat, refuting the notion that its triumph was inevitable, seizing the moral high ground, defunding the enemy -- these tactics toppled the Soviet empire and won the Cold War. They could also put an end to Big Government in America.
- Getting The Government We Deserve
- Has lack of political activism deprived Christians of the political clout that their numbers command? One Christian activist says yes, and challenges his brethren to get involved.
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