An older version of the welfare state is now vying with a newer one for political dominance in the U.S. and Europe, says social thinker Irving Kristol, co-editor of the Public Interest.
The original welfare state, from 1900 to 1945, was largely paternalistic in conception, since the male-dominated trade unions played
Fred Singer, a meteorologist at the University of Virginia, says the world has not warmed since 1940, whereas it appears to have warmed in the half-century or so up to that point in time. While he admits he doesn’t know the cause of the warming then, he discounts the notion
Despite the protests of radical environmentalists, public health advocates are championing the use of the pesticide DDT in poor nations to combat mosquitoes that transmit malaria. “If we just focus on the issue of controlling malaria, DDT is the closest to a miracle chemical that has ever come along,” says
Some critics complain that Hispanic and black Americans are underrepresented in senior positions in the tech world because they didn’t have access to the Internet in earlier years.
But there is substantial evidence that high tech is one of the most ethnically diverse environments in the business world. Economist Gary Becker
Last month, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) media officer Anna Weekes announced, as if it was common knowledge, that “privatisation has never succeeded anywhere in the world”. This month, Samwu deputy general secretary Tom Ngobeni aired his hope that the Odi public-public-partnership (sic) would help “sound the death
Despite fluctuations over the years, the proportion of K-12 U.S. children in private schools was the same in 1998 as it was in 1890, the earliest year for data. The surprising story, however, is that enrolment in Catholic schools has been plunging during the past four decades, even as enrolment
Poor drinking water quality is a major problem in many parts of mainland Europe, even in the more affluent nations, researchers reported at a World Health Organisation meeting in Budapest.
According to WHO statistics, some 20 million people world-wide die each year of water-borne diseases one million of them
The conventional wisdom is that the ballot recounts and court challenges in Florida have given the U.S. a global black eye. American editorial writers decry the "chaos," the "swamp" and the "crisis" occasioned by the ultra-close presidential vote counts in this year's presidential election.
But Americans who specialise in promoting democracy
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released its report, “A Nation at Risk,” that showed American children lagging behind in education. Since then, the teacher unions have continually asked for more money to solve the educational crisis. However, the relation between dollars and units of educational output
Whether or not the American war on drugs is winning in the streets, it’s taken a beating at the election booth. Last month, voters in five states overwhelmingly passed drug policy reform initiatives.
This year, California passed Proposition 36 with more than 60 percent of the popular vote shifting the
