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What if Osama is reading the scientific literature? That’s the question the editors of some of the world??s top science journals asked each other at a meeting in January. They decided that al Qaeda might, in fact, be reading their journals and agreed to censor scientific research that could cause “potential harm” if it fell into the hands of terrorists. Although it appears that the editors were trying to protect the public by blocking sensitive research from being published, their motivations are much less pure. The journals are simply...
...reference, if you want to live in a nice suburb with affordable housing where everyone goes to sleep at 11 p.m. and there’s no fear of your river view being blocked by a new academic monstrosity, don’t live under the shadow of the world??s richest, ever-expanding university. That’s like moving to New York City and complaining about traffic noise...
...colonels’ website, www.kycolonels.org, is also a one-stop shop for colonel merchandise, from official golf towels and “Taste of Kentucky” food baskets in the shape of Kentucky, to the autobiography of Maker’s Mark, “the world??s premier bourbon,” and all manner of “sipping tools,” from jiggers to julep glasses to flasks for the road...
...every day. Indeed, with Libya assuming the chairmanship of its Human Rights Commission, the U.N. has already slid beyond parody. That commission also includes such freedom-loving stalwarts as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Syria, China, Vietnam, Sudan and Zimbabwe. How does one caricature an organization that allows some of the world??s most brutal, repressive dictatorships to lecture the West on human rights? It isn’t easy...
That being said, multilateral organizations can definitely be forces for good in the world??NATO being the most prominent example—and America would obviously be better served if more U.N. leadership roles were held by liberal democracies, instead of dictatorships and anti-American tyrannies. Reforming the U.N. is thus a worthwhile goal. However, it may prove unnecessary, for the U.N. is in danger of consigning itself to the dustbin of insignificance. Should the Security Council decide not to enforce its own resolutions for disarming the regime in Baghdad, it will be forfeiting all its remaining credibility...