Abolishing America (contd.): The Economic Eviction Of White Men
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 March, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: college graduates . corporate downsizing . russell sage foundation . satisfactory explanation . year college degree
White males are suffering from long-term deterioration in lifetime income growth and job security, according to a study, “Divergent Paths,” just released by the Russell Sage Foundation. The study by four academic sociologists and statisticians compares the wage growth and job security of young white males who entered the labor market in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the experience…
Read more »Lincoln And The War On Terror: A Conservative Reappraisal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 March, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: how lincoln code relates to war on terror
The war on terror is creating media attention and fundraising opportunities for conservative organizations. It is also creating confusion of thought among conservatives and, thereby, opportunities for more centralized government power and a police state. Too many Americans are coming to accept that a successful war on terror requires a police state in whole or part. For example, the Model…
Read more »Terror War Makes Us Unsafe
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 March, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Makes . Unsafe . USA
The war on terror has made President Bush popular–proof that Americans like presidents who stick up for their country. Liberals are upset. They believed they had besmirched patriotism with “McCarthyism,” jingoism, and xenophobia, thereby destroying patriotism as a political force. Patriots themselves were intimidated by liberals and driven to operate behind materialistic concepts such as “national interest” and to cover…
Read more »Criminalizing Toy Guns? No Computers For Gun Stores?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 March, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Computers . Criminalizing . Gun . Guns? . Stores? . Toy
Gun control has reached absurd limits in America. In Michigan an eight-year-old boy is being prosecuted for pointing a toy gun at three other youngsters and threatening to shoot them. If this had happened in my day, every boy would have spent his youth in prison. We played guns when we weren’t playing baseball or football. We had three variants:…
Read more »American Prosecutors Deserve Count Of Monte Cristo
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 March, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: count of monte cristo money corruption siteorg
There’s a great movie playing, a rendition of Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Go to see it. It speaks to the injustice of our own time–only our legions of wrongfully convicted lack the power of the Count of Monte Cristo to take revenge on the snitches and corrupt prosecutors who frame them. Dumas’ novel is a tremendous story…
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