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| Category: | American Thought | Published: | November 2011 |  | | Why the Democratic Party Is the Enemy of the Republic | | Jonathan W. Emord | | "Democrats do not simply dissent from the Founding Fathers' conception of good government, they oppose that conception." | | |
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| Category: | Mass Media | Published: | November 2011 | | | The Race Is On | | Raymond L. Fischer | | When the Supreme Court overturned a long-term trend to limit political spending of corporations and unions, it set the stage for a lively and lucrative 2012 presidential campaign. | | |
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| Category: | Worldview | Published: | November 2011 | | | The European Union in Crisis | | Vaclav Klaus | | ". . . With the way the American government has been going, the U.S. might be able to catch up with us--in terms of our problems--very soon, but your nation is not as far along yet." | | |
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| Category: | Business & Finance | Published: | November 2011 | | | Taking a Long Look at Short Sales | | Mike Cuevas | | Losing one's home is a painful process, but short sales can help families to decrease the time and frustration they spend in financial limbo--and maintain their credit while moving forward. | | |
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| Category: | National Affairs | Published: | November 2011 | | | Supreme Decisions Ahead | | Edward J. Erler | | While the Tea Party probably is our best hope, its adherents will have to learn that the task is not to weaken the power of govt--it is to confine the govt to the exercise of its delegated powers that was the legacy of the founders. | | |
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| Category: | Science & Technology | Published: | November 2011 | | | Strange Beasts in the Stellar Zoo | | Judith Braffman-Miller | | "The end would not be pretty--all of the nuceli of all the atoms of Earth might morph into strange matter, and our entire planet would be converted into an enormous and extremely hot glob." | | |
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| Category: | Worldview | Published: | November 2011 | | | Standing Up to the Mullahs | | Armin Arefi | | The author is a French-Iranian journalist who was working in Iran until, one day, the authorities confiscated his press pass, interrogated him at a secret police headquarters, and threatened to harm his family. He then fled to France. | | |
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| Category: | Museums Today | Published: | November 2011 | | | Pissarro's People | | | | "Camille Pissarro was a committed reader of radical social, political, and economic theory. His profound knowledge of social philosophy, which informs much of his art, far exceeds that of any other significant painter of the period." | | |
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| Category: | Medicine & Health | Published: | November 2011 | | | Military Miracles Show the Way | | Susan Pressly Lephart | | While some might say no good can come from war, in the field of medicine, that is not necessarily the case. Significant advances are born out of necessity on the battlefield, and they often end up saving the lives of civilians. | | |
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| Category: | Political Landscape | Published: | November 2011 | | | In Pursuit of a New President | | James W. Thomson | | "As [Pres. Barack] Obama himself has stated, elections have consequences--and the votes cast one year from now very well could be for the highest stakes, sans the Civil War, in U.S. history." | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | November 2011 | | | Has Religion Dropped a Notch Below S&M? | | Dolores T. Puterbaugh | | For the present time, Catholics and Jews are free to beat one another for pleasure, but may have little time remaining to circumcise their sons into the covenant. | | |
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| Category: | Economics | Published: | November 2011 | | | Getting a Divorce Recession-Style | | Mark Banschick | | The economy is affecting divorcing couple the way it is affecting everyone--encouraging frugality and collaboration. | | |
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| Category: | Health & Fitness | Published: | November 2011 | | | Fattening Up the Coffers | | Michael Fenster | | While a fat tax may fill the Treasury and expand the government's power over our ever-decreasing individual liberty, the chances are slim it would accomplish any waist--or waste--reduction. | | |
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| Category: | Religion | Published: | November 2011 | | | Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay | | Jay Michaelson | | "If this world, with its astounding variety of life, culture, and natural beauty indeed was made by God, then surely God likes variety." | | |
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| Category: | USA Yesterday | Published: | November 2011 | | | Crafting an Economic Policy that Actually Works | | Murray Weidenbaum | | Economic freedom is intertwined closely with personal liberty; business-government relations should be characterized by less intervention by government; and free trade is the international combination of these two themes. | | |
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| Category: | Entertainment | Published: | November 2011 | | | Kicking Up a Storm in 3D | | Hannah Sides , Karen Keeler | | Rooted in tradition, the Radio City "Christmas Spectacular" has impressed audiences for almost 80 years, and this year's transformation is sure to surpass all expectations. | | |
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| Category: | American Culture | Published: | November 2011 | | | Yuletide Greetings | | | | The power of Christmas derives from the strength and appeal of its repeated rituals and the presumed antiquity of its traditions. . . . | | |
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