Neither Left Nor Right Has Focused Adequately

There Seems To Be This Sense Among Even Well-meaning Americans That Africa Is This Black Hole Of Murder And Mutilation That Can Never Be Fixed, No Matter What Aid Is Brought In.

We Tie Ourselves In Knots When We Act As If Democracy Is Good For The United States And Israel But Not For The Arab World. For Far Too Long, We've Treated The Arab World As Just An Oil Field.

In General, Talking About Human Rights Tends To Be Very Persuasive For People Who Care About Human Rights.

Our Nearly Century-long Experiment In Banning Marijuana Has Failed As Abysmally As Prohibition Did... In Contrast, Legalizing And Taxing Marijuana Would Bring In Substantial Sums That Could Be Used To Pay For Schools, Libraries Or Early Childhood Education.

There Could Be A Powerful International Women's Rights Movement If Only Philanthropists Would Donate As Much To Real Women As To Paintings And Sculptures Of Women.