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Daily Archives: September 30th, 2011

A Car Swerves Off the Road

  YEARS AGO, when I was in my twenties, I was driving one winter night along a four-lane highway near the city of Camden, New Jersey. It was bitter cold, windy and it had snowed the day before. The city of Camden, for those who are not familiar with it, is one of the most dangerous cities in [...]

The Socialist Paradise of Sweden

  THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes: Sweden illustrates better than any country I know the parasitic character of liberalism-socialism. In the mid-twentieth century, Sweden built itself up into a regional industrial power with a robust export-economy in goods ranging from grain and dairy products to heavy machinery and ships. Sweden’s role as a “neutral” in World War [...]

Fundraising Drive

  THE Center for Work-Life Policy is a “think tank” based in New York City that devotes its considerable efforts to the ongoing transformation of society. The Center advocates, among other things, the replacement of the male corporate worker, particularly the white male professional, with the female corporate worker. Even though the income of working women has [...]

In Sweden, Feminist Utopianism Falters

  JESSE POWELL writes: I have heard Sweden referred to as a paradise many times. In Sweden, which is famous for its generous parental leave policies, everything is supposedly wonderful and the Swedish have no problems. In fact, Sweden has many of the same social problems found in the rest of Europe. For instance, there was a radical decline in the [...]

Worsening Black Unemployment

  EDWIN RUBENSTEIN writes at VDare: From January 2009 to August 2011 both whites and blacks suffered employment declines: Black employment fell by 540,000, or 3.5% and white employment fell by 2.5 million, or 1.8%. By contrast, more Asians and Hispanics held jobs at the end of the period than at the start of the [...]