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How to save the U.S. Postal Service
feature Unlike the post office, which has a monopoly on letter delivery, FedEx and UPS have had to compete for customers by boosting quality and holding prices down, said Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe.
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Seeing racism for what it is
feature Riley Cooper’s case shows just how poorly he and most other Americans understand “what a racist is.”
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Searching for a libertarian paradise
feature Not one of the world’s 193 sovereign states—not even a tiny one—has adopted a full-on libertarian system.
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Our culture’s worship of celebrity
feature It was in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age that the modern concept of celebrity was born.
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Stop whining and pay your taxes
feature 'Tis the season
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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
feature In our culture, there
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The hidden benefits of a winning team
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Quote of the week: Jason Gay
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Remember when golf was going to save Tiger Woods? That was the dubious pop-psych theory last winter ...
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Quote of the week: Nicholas D. Kristof
feature From The New York Times: “In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid, all-male Vatican hierarchy ...
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Bin Laden’s secret stash of porn
feature “Islam has a very rich tradition of sacred sexuality and eroticism,” but extremists have turned that tradition rancid with their misogyny, said Asra Q. Nomani in TheDailyBeast.com.
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Executions should be televised
feature If we are to continue executing criminals in the U.S, we ought to do it in an open and accountable way, said Zachary B. Shemtob and David Lat at The New York Times.
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Not everyone belongs in college
feature For years, our nation’s colleges have been churning out vastly more graduates than there are jobs requiring degrees, said Richard Vedder and Andrew Gillen at NationalReview.com.
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Libya’s lesson for North Korea
feature Once again, the U.S. has proved that dictators have only one “true security guarantee”: nukes, said Mira Rapp-Hooper and Kenneth N. Waltz at TheAtlantic.com.
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Feeling free to hate Mormons
feature Disdaining all Mormons is “simple prejudice”—no better than hating all Catholics or Jews or blacks, said James Fallows at TheAtlantic.com.
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