Robert Tracinski says it's time to stop blaming the victim. Richard Ellis's book tries to answer these questions. Losing Our Language Multicultural reading instruction is damaging children's cognitive development, claims Sandra Stotsky. The Underground Grammarian Richard Mitchell is an advocate of simple, lucid thinking and writing. Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, is acting more like P.T. Barnum than a responsible steward of an important public institution.
Lawyers are among the most reviled of our fellow citizens.
Walter Olson asks whether they are victims of an unfair stereotype or if they done something to deserve their bad reputation. A hate that burns like your knees burn after you've slid a yard on a harsh synthetic rug. A hate I've nourished and stoked for decades. I came of age in the 70s, and there were few crueler things you could inflict on a person. Syphilis and Fonzie.