Some years ago, my mother got me a Christmas present I had asked for: a subscription to the Economist. And she has been kind enough to renew my subscription each Christmas since. Now, however, I am seriously considering asking her not to renew it anymore. Not because I'm not grateful for her gift (it's a pretty expensive news-weekly); but ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what Michael Gerson is trying to accomplish in his latest Washington Post column, "The Eugenics Temptation". It's so badly written, and his assertions so poorly backed up (when they're backed up at all), that one wonders why he even bothered. I guess he couldn't grapple with a real issue, and trotted out another another disposable ( Read more... )