5/30 ABetterEarth.org’s profile of the great Norman Borlaug.
5/28 Is sexual identity a result of nature or nurture? Wendy McElroy reviews the tragic case of a boy who was surgically transformed into a girl. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.)
5/27 David Kelley interviews Charles Murray about his ambitious Human Accomplishment And here is William Thomas’s review.
5/26 Professor Edwin Locke praises Wal-Mart and argues that
politicians should let customers decide where Wal-mart’s stores are located. (Requires login at The Chicago Tribune’s website. Thanks to David P. for the link.)
5/25 An interview with Nobel-prize-winning libertarian economist Milton Friedman. (Via SOLO. )
5/23 Archaeologist Joachim Latacz asks: Was there a Trojan War? — and considers the evidence from Homer. Manfred Korfmann, director of excavations at Troy, summarizes the archaeological evidence. See also Project Troia, the home site for reports on the excavations at Troy.
5/22 Doom-and-gloomster Paul Ehrlich has a history of spectacularly wrong predictions, notes Ronald Bailey. So why does anyone still listen to him?
5/21 Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy: author Christopher Yablonski finds that for every $1 donated to politically Right groups $4.41 is donated to Left groups.
5/20 Economist Stan Liebowitz examines and dismisses
The Myth of QWERTY. (Thanks to Joe for the link.)
5/19 The Polaris Project’s efforts against trafficking in human bondage and slavery.
5/18 Hamilton College student Jonathan Rick defends the right to hate speech. (Great footnotes!)
5/17 Why do doomster environmentalists continue to support policies that kill Africans?
5/15 Reason’s Cathy Young on Alexander Solzhenitsyn – and whether the author of The Gulag Archipelago is also an anti-Semite.
5/14 Terrible things happened at Abu Ghraib prison. Columnist Thomas Sowell asks: How should responsible journalists report it? (Thanks to Marsha for the link.) And TOC’s Ed Hudgins asks a broader and more provocative question: are the people of the Middle East fit for freedom? Update: The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby’s stinging column on media coverage of Abu Ghraib and the beheading of Nicholas Berg. (Via www.ecoNot.com.)
5/12 Law professor Randy Barnett provides a summary introduction to recent discussions of the Ninth Amendment.
5/10 From The Wall Street Journal, Victor David Hanson adds up the wages of appeasement. (Thanks to Robert for the link.)
5/8 Politically incorrect Tyler Cowen on the psychology of male and female competitive performance.
5/6 Economist Paul Romer offers advice on improving higher education’s investing in innovation.
5/4 Pamela Bone reviews “Osama,” the first film to come out of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, and rages against the lack of women’s rights in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
5/2 The Independent Institute’s Pierre Lemieux on the hidden costs of socialized medicine.