The following appears in the March 23-29, 2012 issue of the Long Island Business News: There has been much chatter among media talking heads about a study conducted by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning that concluded our democratic form of government is fatally flawed because voters are dumb. According to Dunning, most people are not [...]

The following appears in the March 9-15, 2012 issue of the Long Island Business News: As Democrats and Republicans slug it out in the public square over the so-called “fairness” issue, the facts are every year fewer people pay federal income taxes and more people become dependent on government entitlement programs. In 1984, the percentage [...]

 The following appears in the February 24-March 1, 2012 issue of the Long Island Business News:  In a remarkable essay titled “The Once and Future Liberalism,” historian Walter Russell Mead explains why “the core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the 60 years after the New Deal don’t work anymore.” In the [...]

This article I wrote appears in the New York Post on February 17, 2012.

 The following appears in the February 10-16, 2011 issue of the Long Island Business News: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget for the state’s fiscal year that begins on April 1 is an intriguing document that on the one hand addresses some fiscal and policy issues long ignored while on the other hand placates some special interests. [...]