The Suicide Of Marlboro Man
Fred Reed recounts The Suicide Of Marlboro Man: What happens is that, in an independent-minded rural county full of hardy yeomen, the density of population grows, either nearby or at distant points on...
View ArticleTrying to Understand Liberals and Conservatives
Fred Reed is trying to understand Liberals and Conservatives: Conservatives believe in the wisdom of common Americans to manage their affairs and make decisions for themselves. Exceptions to this are...
View ArticleMarx In Disguise
Fred Reed peers at Marx In Disguise: On the principle that leprosy is more fun if you understand why your fingers are falling off, permit me a few thoughts on Karl Marx, his witless theories, and our...
View ArticleRemedial Condescension
Fred Reed says a number of unpleasant things in Remedial Condescension, but this point caught my attention: Decades ago, I decided that blacks should be judged on their individual merits, just as...
View ArticleWomen In Combat
Fred Reed says that placing women in combat is “stupid and unworkable” — then provides some data to back his harsh claims: From the report of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in...
View ArticleSay No to Monroe
Say No to Monroe, Fred Reed says: I recently found the following from McClatchey news service: “As the Pentagon eyes a bigger role in Mexico’s drug war…” Book me a ticket to Mars. The Pentagon is...
View ArticleLatin America does not have a drug problem
Latin America does not have a drug problem, Fred Reed explains: It has a United States problem. The problem is that Americans want drugs. The US is a huge, voracious, insatiable market for drugs....
View ArticleSymbolic Iron Yachts
A great many countries fear attack by the United States, Fred Reed says — Russia, China, and Iran, for starters — but don’t have the money to build carrier groups: All of these have thought about cheap...
View ArticleImmigration is not something Mexico did to the United States
Immigration is not something Mexico did to the United States, Fred Reed says, but something the United States did to itself: Decades ago it changed its laws to favor Latin immigrants, gives immigrant...
View ArticleCommentator’s Disease
Beltway think-tanky types hang around almost entirely with other people in the 99th percentile of intelligence, and this, Fred Reed says, leads them to develop commentator’s disease: Denizens of this...
View ArticleEnstupidation
Fred Reed wonders what purpose the public schools serve — other than to warehouse children while their parents work or watch television: They certainly don’t teach much, as survey after survey shows....
View ArticleLiving in a Dictatorship
How does one tell whether one is living in a dictatorship, or almost? The signs need not be so obvious as having a squat little man raving from balconies. Methinks the following indicators serve. In a...
View ArticleResegregation
Boys are struggling in school, but this isn’t a hard problem to solve, Fred Reed says: The problem could be solved in about ten minutes by having separate schools for boys, grade school through high...
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