Cultural, Political & General Interest Articles

  1. “The Evolution of the Fracking Revolution,” in American Thinker, September 24, 2015. LINK
  2. “On Dogs, Cats and Carnal Knowledge,” in Liberty, June 15, 2015. LINK
  3. “Fracking: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!” in American Thinker, June 15, 2015. LINK
  4. “Disquieting Developments,” in Liberty, April 22, 2015. LINK
  5. “Good News for School Reform,” in American Thinker, April 5, 2015. LINK
  6. “Right to Work Nation?” in Liberty, March 21, 2015. LINK
  7. “Russian Money and Useful American Idiots: The Same Old Story,” in American Thinker, March 2, 2015. LINK
  8. “Seizing Reform?” in Liberty, February 15, 2015. LINK
  9. “Melancholic Milestones,” in American Thinker, December 23, 2014. LINK
  10. “Fracking Ferment and Malthusian Myths,” in Liberty, December 18, 2014. LINK
  11. “A Fifth Column Undermines the War for American Energy Independence,” in American Thinker, July 10, 2014. LINK
  12. “Unions minus Coercion equals Nothing,” in American Thinker, May 21, 2014. LINK
  13. “Toyota to California: ”˜Don’t Mess with Texas’,” in American Thinker, May 7, 2014. LINK
  14. “Universities are not Walmart,” in Liberty, April 11, 2014. LINK
  15. “What Did Obama Motors Know?” in Liberty, April 5, 2014. LINK
  16. “The UAW Smack-down,” in Liberty, March 5, 2014. LINK
  17. “Free Trade: O Reaps What He Sows,” in American Thinker, February, 2014. LINK
  18. “The Student Loan Debacle: A Clear Moral Hazard,” in com, December 3, 2013. Reprinted in The Fiscal Times, December 5, 2013. LINK
  19. “Pointless Ph.D. Proliferation,” in Pope Center for Higher Education, December 2, 2013. LINK
  20. “New Doubts about the Value of a College Degree,” in American Thinker, November 20, 2013. LINK
  21. “Young Frogs Hop to New Ponds,” in American Thinker, November 4, 2013. LINK
  22. “Geopolitical Fallout from the U.S. Energy Revolution,” in American Thinker, October 28, 2013. LINK
  23. “The ABA Feels the Heat,” in com, October 23, 2013. LINK
  24. “Rent-Seeking in French and English,” in American Thinker, October 19, 2013. LINK
  25. “The Coming of the Auto-Auto,” in American Thinker, October 10, 2013. LINK
  26. “Unions Driven Crazy by Crisis,” September 22, 2013. LINK
  27. “What Fracking Hath Wrought,” in American Thinker, August 18, 2013. LINK
  28. “Unions Complaining about Digging Their Own Grave,” in American Thinker, August 7, 2013. LINK
  29. “Athena 4, Gaia 0,” in Liberty, July 31, 2013. LINK
  30. “Good News about Hispanic Grads,” in Liberty, June 24, 2013. LINK
  31. “Open Access to Public MOOCs,” in American Thinker, June 8, 2013. LINK
  32. “French Follies Continue to Entertain,” in American Thinker, April 6, 2013. LINK
  33. “A Sincere Change of Heart?” in Liberty, April 2, 2013. LINK
  34. “Earth to New York Times: Wake Up,” in Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Commentaries, March 10, 2013. LINK
  35. “Yes, They are Liberal: A Major Academic Journal Looks at Bias in Psychology,” in Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Commentaries, February 14, 2013. LINK
  36. “Union Blues,” in American Thinker, February 13, 2013. LINK
  37. “Domestic Energy: Triumph in the Face of Adversity,” in American Thinker, February 5, 2013. LINK
  38. “The NRA Speaks Truth to Power,” in Intellectual Conservative, January 4, 2013. LINK
  39. “Atlas Left—with His Cheese!” in American Thinker, January 1, 2013. LINK
  40. “More Students Thinking Outside the College Box,” in American Thinker, December 17, 2012. LINK
  41. “A Classical Liberal Case for Immigration Reform,” in Liberty, December 7, 2012. LINK
  42. “College Professors Get What They Asked For, Don’t Like it Much,” in American Thinker, December 1, 2012. LINK
  43. “Approaching Crunch Time on the Student Loan Debacle,” in American Thinker, November 26, 2012. LINK
  44. “The Loss and the Future,” in Liberty, November 18, 2012. LINK
  45. “More than a Fad: Solid Data Show that Online Learning is Effective,” in Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Commentaries, November 2, 2012. LINK
  46. “The Case for Romney,” in Liberty, October 25, 2012. LIN K
  47. “Mitt Romney: The Whitest Man in the Room?” in American Thinker, October 8, 2012. LINK
  48. “The California College System under Scrutiny,” in com (Manhattan Institute), September 5, 2012. LINK
  49. “Moore’s Law versus the Law of More,” in Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Commentaries, August 31, 2012. LINK
  50. “Teachers’ Unions in Action,” in American Thinker, August 11, 2012. LINK
  51. “Finally, Some Disclosure by the ABA,” in com (Manhattan Institute) July 5, 2012. LINK
  52. “Let’s Fix the Community Colleges,” in com (Manhattan Institute) June 10, 2012. LINK
  53. “Regulators Gone Wild,” in American Thinker, June 2, 2012. LINK
  54. “Note to President Romney: On Free Trade, Start with Brazil,” in American Thinker, May 19, 2012. (A shorter version of this piece was published as an op/ed in The Orange County Register May 5, 2012). LINK
  55. “Green Grief,” in Liberty, May 15, 2012. LINK
  56. “Fracking Vindicated,” in American Thinker, April 14, 2012. LINK
  57. “Arab Spring, Winter for Christians?” in Liberty, April 5, 2012. LINK
  58. “A New Wrinkle on Public Choice Theory,” in Liberty, March 25, 2012. LINK
  59. “The Coming Anti-Mormon Rage,” in Liberty, March 9, 2012. LINK
  60. “Like the Price of Gas? Just Wait!” in American Thinker, March 2, 2012. LINK
  61. “Crony College Capitalism, Chicago-Style,” in American Thinker, January 25, 2012. LINK
  62. “Obama’s Head-Fake on U.S. Energy Development,” in American Thinker, January 22, 2012. LINK
  63. “Confirmed: Charter Schools Beat the Daylights Out of Public Schools,” in American Thinker, January 18, 2012. LINK
  64. “The Green Energy Bust Continues,” in Liberty, January 8, 2012. LINK
  65. “Unlimited Domestic Energy—Right Now,” in American Thinker, January 2, 2012. LINK
  66. “Remembering Baroness Thatcher,” in American Thinker, December 31, 2011. LINK
  67. “State of Denial: How New York May Squander its Energy Boom,” in American Thinker, December 26, 2011. LINK
  68. “Crony College Capitalism,” in Liberty, December 15, 2011. LINK
  69. “More on the Great Green Energy Bust,” in Intellectual Conservative, December 12, 2011. LINK
  70. “Obama’s Green War Continues,” in American Thinker, November 26, 2011. LINK
  71. “End the Green Nightmare,” in Liberty, November 16, 2011. LINK
  72. “Why Beverly Hills Needs School Vouchers,” in American Thinker, November 14, 2011. LINK
  73. “School Reform is Making Advances across America,” in American Thinker, November 9, 2011. LIN K
  74. “How Green Were My Cronies,” in Liberty, November 3, 2011. LINK
  75. “Thoughts on Crony Capitalism,” in Liberty, October 9, 2011. LINK
  76. “Why Obama is Losing the Latino Vote,” in Liberty, October 5, 2011. LINK
  77. “Mickey D’s in Education?” in American Thinker, October 1, 2011. LINK
  78. “Conflicts of Loyalty in War Movies,” in Liberty, September 19, 2011. LINK
  79. “The Continuing Disgrace of U.S. Education,” in American Thinker, September 10, 2011. LINK
  80. “Crony Green Capitalism,” in American Thinker, September 8, 2011. LINK
  81. “A State of Total Insanity,” in American Thinker, September 2, 2011. LINK
  82. “Obama Solves the Illegal Immigration Problem,” in American Thinker, August 28, 2011. LINK
  83. “The Superiority of School Vouchers Demonstrated,” in American Thinker, August 21, 2011. LINK
  84. “Crazy Priorities in California’s Colleges,” in American Thinker, August 13, 2011. LINK
  85. “Look for the Union Label—Courtesy of the Smoking Union Brand,” in American Thinker, August 3, 2011. LINK
  86. “The Bad Education News is Even Worse,” in The Intellectual Conservative, August 1, 2011. LINK
  87. “California’s Newest Job-Killer,” in American Thinker, July 9, 2011. LINK
  88. “More Enviro-Anomalies,” in American Thinker, June 20, 2011. LINK
  89. “Trains to Nowhere,” in American Thinker, June 18, 2011. LINK
  90. “How to Win Payoffs and Intimidate Enemies in Obama’a America,” in American Thinker, June 2, 2011. LINK
  91. “Good News for School Choice,” in American Thinker, May 25, 2011. LINK
  92. “Environmentalist Schizophrenia,” in American Thinker, May 18, 2011. LINK
  93. “A Car Subsidy That Makes Sense,” in The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute, May 18, 2011. LINK
  94. “Nuclear Power and Dread Risk,” in American Thinker, May1, 2011. LINK
  95. “Energy: A Tale of Two Narratives,” in American Thinker, April 17, 2011. LINK
  96. “Merit Pay for Teachers Works,” in American Thinker, April 15, 2011. LINK
  97. “Another Fine Pension Mess,” in American Thinker, March 29. 2011. LINK
  98. “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” in Liberty, March 20, 2011. LINK
  99. “The Green Dream is an Economic Nightmare,” in American Thinker, March 12, 2011. LINK
  100. “A Hollywood Ending,” in American Thinker, February 6, 2011. LINK
  101. “Artists in the Movies: The Ten Best Films,” in Liberty, January 5, 2011.  LINK
  102. “Expose the Public Pension Mess,” in The American Thinker, December 17, 2010.  LINK
  103. “Crony Car Capitalism,” in The American Thinker, December 8, 2010.  LINK
  104. “The Case for Free Trade,” in Liberty, December 2010, pp. 33-41.  LINK
  105. “Drill Deep, Drill Smart,” in Liberty, November 2010, pp. 25-28,36.  LINK
  106. “A Suggestion for Republicans: Push SarbOx for Government,” in The Intellectual Conservative, July 9, 2010.   LINK
  107. “The Rest of the Best: Ten Great Actors Snubbed by Oscar,” in Liberty, August 2010, pp. 41-46.  LINK
  108. “Time to Let South Korea Defend Itself,” in The Intellectual Conservative, July 7, 2010.    LINK
  109. “President Hamlet’s Energy Policy,” in The American Thinker, May 12, 2010.  LINK
  110. “Dissonance and Victimhood,” in The American Thinker, May 7, 2010.  LINK
  111. “Obamalaise,” in Liberty, May 2010, pp. 23-24, 40-41.  LINK
  112. “The Ethical Case for Boycotting Chrysler and GM,” in The American Thinker, June 10, 2009.  LINK
  113. “The Ethics of Closed Shops,” in Liberty, January-February 2009, pp. 51- 54.  LINK
  114. “A Nation Still at Risk,” in Liberty, December 2008, pp. 33-42.  LINK
  115. “The Rise of the Comic Book Movie, in Liberty, October 2008, pp. 46-47.  LINK
  116. “The Ethics of Tort Reform,” in Liberty, June 2008, pp. 23-28,62  LINK
  117. “Where Have all the Techies Gone?” in Liberty, December 2007, pp. 23-26.  LINK
  118. “The Market for Body Parts,” in Liberty, October 2007, pp. 33-36.
  119. “The League of Free Nations: A South park Solution to the UN Dilemma,” in The Free Liberal, September 19, 2007.
  120. “Global Warming, Global Stifling,” in Liberty, May 2007, pp. 21-26, 32.
  121. “Ed Schools Flunk Again,” on LewRockwell.com, Thurs., November 9, 2006.  LINK
  122. “The Rise of the Compassionate Class” in Liberty, November 2006, pp. 29-37.
  123. “A Social Security Liquidation Sale,” on LewRockwell.com, Tues, Oct 10, 2006.  LINK
  124. “Merit Pay for Teachers” California Review, June 1986.
  125. “An Idea Whose Time Has Passed” in Contemporary Education Vol. LV, No. 3 (1984).
  126. “Liberalism and Nuclear War” California Review, November 1984.
  127. “Is the Computer the Cure?”  California Review, October 1983.
  128. “Is the Soviet Union Evil?”  The Republican, June 1983.
  129. “Student Choice in Education” California Review, May 1983.
  130. “Should Foreign Language Study be Considered Basic?” Contemporary Education, Vol. 54, No. 1 (1982).
  131. “The Passing of a Paragon,” California Review, March 1982.