Victor Davis Hanson, speaking on Western virtues, in The National Review: Western society at its worst has also suffered from the same age-old sins of human nature prevalent everywhere and at every age

Collin Levey’s WSJ Opinion Journal article, “Anticircus Freaks,” contains wonderful words of social defiance from Ringling Bros. producer Kenneth Feld. Feld has begun taking on such bullying special interest groups as PETA by fighting their nuissance suits in court, usually successfully: ‘A small group of extremists does not have the right to impose their radical views on the people […] to prevent the majority, who want to see animals in

“The Miss America Organization might be saying adios to Atlantic City after this year’s pageant,” Debra Saunders points out in her latest column. “Its board of directors has been looking at other cities. I nominate Berkeley.” […] Of course, limiting the pageant to young ladies is likely to violate Berkeley’s refined sense of diversity. The City Council, of course, could pass a resolution inviting the organization to broaden its standards