Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 18 / Who's smarter, liberals or conservatives?

HERE'S A FAIR-MINDED article that provides fodder for both sides of the debate, but will probably make liberals happier.

DECEMBER 16 / "If I can write its textbooks"

WITH HIS FAMOUS textbook, the brilliant Paul Samuelson helped create something that did not exist before him: mass literacy in economics. But it's too bad that . . .

DECEMBER 9 / The generational obligation

THE FETISHISATION of change is symptomatic of . . .

DECEMBER 7 / More whoppers from Chronicle editorial writers

THESE assertions from an editorial in Sunday's Chronicle are exaggerations and untruths:

DECEMBER 2 / Chronicle editorialists did something . . .

. . . good.

NOVEMBER 26 / A day of public thanksgiving and prayer

WHEREAS IT IS the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God . . .

NOVEMBER 25 / A man's worth

MORE THAN just an annual turkey fest, the Puritans gave America a pedagogy of work . . .

NOVEMBER 22 / None of the above

A new study by researchers at Trinity College found that 34 million adult Americans -- about 15 percent of the population -- have no religious affiliation. In 1990, just 8 percent . . . claimed no affiliation . . . . / . . . . / So what's at stake?

NOVEMBER 20 / Why your kids will be less prosperous than you

BY 2030, the United States will be transferring seven percent of its entire annual output to the rest of the world. . . .

NOVEMBER 19 / Stratfor on war and justice

GEORGE FRIEDMAN teaches everything we need to know the "extraordinarily complex can of worms" Attorney General Holder has opened with his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court.