Jon Margolis

Assuming that history continues to be studied, history may well remember last week as the one in which the American chattering classes dropped all pretense of intelligence and substance. Otherwise,...

Much was made a few weeks ago over whether a Texas county would give Apple Computer Inc. a tax break even though the company extended health and other benefits to...

Now that violent crime is again the leading political issue, here, as a public service, is a complete list of what can be done about it: Nothing. Well, at least...

The quality of American public debate has been transformed in the weeks since Congress passed the North American Free Trade Agreement, from merely sophomoric to downright pediatric. Cartoonists, pundits, composers...

Interactive, Shminteractive. No, no Luddism here. Or is it Ludditism? Who knows? Turns out there wasn't really any Ned Ludd anyway, leading the loom-smashers. He was just a symbol. Either...

Now, in this matter of paying New Jerseyites to urge their fellows to sit home on Election Day, the following sensible observations in an effort to neutralize the many not-so-sensible...

The French, who know human frailty, coined the phrase, "epater le bourgeois," meaning to shock respectable folks for the sake of shocking them. It's still done, and these days respectable...

Here's a trade secret. Writing about politics is a cushy job. Somebody else pays for you to wander around America, staying in fancy hotels and eating in gourmet restaurants so...

Two recent events, one unfortunate and one exciting, seemingly unrelated. But maybe not. For through the second, exciting event comes the potential for neutralizing the unfortunateness of the first, and...

The latest news from the multi-cultural front comes from the American Indian Movement, headquartered here, where one faction is accusing another of being insufficiently pure-blooded in its Indian-ness. The dispute...