Vincent Carroll is a Colorado-based journalist and editorial writer who has served as editorial page editor of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in the mid-1990s, writing pieces on media bias, education policy, and cultural commentary.
SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER Ronald Reagan pledged to abolish the Department of Education, few Republicans in Congress will even discuss that goal, let alone pursue it. Perhaps they have lost sight of how some education bureaucrats spend their time when unconstrained by fear of political reprisal.
WASHINGTON JOURNALISTS are generally thought to be more liberal than their colleagues in the hinterland, and the perception is understandable. If 89 percent of journalists in the nation's capital really did vote for Bill Clinton in 1992, as a survey by the Freedom Forum suggested, then they rival…
AN INFLUENTIAL POET and progressive cultural icon had died, and thus the obituaries in the New York Times and Washington Post were unremittingly reverential. At times it was difficult to discern which of Allen Ginsberg's legacies was the more memorable -- Was it his prodigious literary output or,…
In retrospect, it was merely a matter of time before Tom Hayden would finally proclaim himself an Indian. For a quarter century or more, Indians have been Hayden's favorite people -- equaled in his affections for only a few years by the Communist Vietnamese. But whereas Communist imperfections…
Lester Brown and his Worldwatch Institute rarely miss an angle when describing the coming global calamity, the one that is unfolding right before our blinkered eyes. Even the behavior of mosquitoes is worth a melodramatic pause in World-watch's annual book-long jeremiad, the State of the World.
Lester Brown and his Worldwatch Institute rarely miss an angle when describing the coming global calamity, the one that is unfolding right before our blinkered eyes. Even the behavior of mosquitoes is worth a melodramatic pause in World-watch's annual book-long jeremiad, the State of the World.