Archive for Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy is an author, the editor of ifeminists.com, and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
The Great Writ Then and Now
The Great Writ Then and Now
by Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy (wendy@wendymcelroy.com) is an author, the editor of ifeminists.com, and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
Habeas corpus is a rarely invoked legal writ, or document, widely considered to be the cornerstone of individual liberty. Also known as The Great Writ, habeas corpus (ad [...]
China’s One-Child Disaster
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the editor of ifeminists.com and a research fellow for The Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
On February 28 a Reuters news story quoted Zhao Baige, the Chinese vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), as indicating that the People’s Republic of China might change its “one-child [...]
The Return of Debtors’ Prison?
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the editor of ifeminists.com and a research fellow for The Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused, or tried. Chadwick is imprisoned on contempt-of-court charges [...]
Prosecutorial Indiscretion
Wendy McElroy is the editor of ifeminists.com and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
Last July 26 former Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong offered a full and unqualified apology for his crusade to convict three palpably innocent white Duke University students of raping a black woman in March 2006. Nifong acknowledged [...]
Cultural Competence and Your Child
Wendy McElroy is the author of several books, a columnist at Foxnews.com, and proprietor of the blog WendyMcElroy.com.
A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect [...]
Can a Feminist Homeschool Her Child
“Welcome to my home school—my private, little rebellion against the enemies of educational excellence and the forces of feminism who say a woman’s place is in the paying workplace.”
—ISABEL LYMAN
“A Mother’s Day of Home Schooling”
In a peaceful mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of parents are choosing to stay [...]
Politicizing the Housewife
Contributing Editor Wendy McElroy is the author of The Reasonable Woman and other books. She writes a regular Tuesday column for the Fox News Web site, www.foxnews.com.
What it means to be a housewife is being revised ideologically in order to impugn the choice some mothers make to stay at home.
The revisionism has been [...]
A "Family" Crisis at the United Nations
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the author of The Reasonable Woman and other books. She writes a regular Tuesday column for the Fox News Web site, www.foxnews.com.
In 1979 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the United States [...]
The Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the author of The Reasonable Woman and other books.
I n September 2000, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched a $12 million campaign to advertise a new Internet service, eBillPay, through which customers could pay their bills electronically. EBillPay is one of several new e-services designed to woo [...]
Gender Madness on Columbia’s Campus
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the author of The Reasonable Woman and other books.
Since the beginning of the fall 2000 academic year, a precedent-setting “Sexual Misconduct Policy” has been in place at Columbia University, one of the nation’s most prominent universities. The policy is a new maneuver in the politically correct gender crusade that has [...]
Does Rape Violate the Commerce Clause?
Contributing editor Wendy McElroy is the author of The Rational Woman.
Last spring the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a key section of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). That section allowed a victim of rape or other violence “motivated by gender” to sue the perpetrator for civil damages in federal [...]
Sweatshops: Look for the INS Label
Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty.
The nineteenth-century phenomenon of sweatshops is re-emerging as an important 21st-century issue for American labor and business. For example, the United Students Against Sweatshops has called on its 180 campus affiliates to organize and force universities to deal only with manufacturers who abide by [...]
Constitutional Intentions
Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty.
Aquestion frequently arises in disputes about how to interpret the U.S. Constitution: What was the intention of those who framed the document? This question contains an invalid assumption. It assumes that those who drafted the Constitution at the 1787 convention and those involved in [...]
Nock on Education
Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty.
The self-proclaimed “philosophical anarchist” Albert Jay Nock thought he was so superfluous to the society around him that he titled his 1943 autobiography Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. He felt utterly out of step with the twentieth century.
Born in 1870, he witnessed the severe societal changes [...]
Is the Constitution Antiquated?
Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of The Freeman.
Article I of the U.S. Constitution addresses the legislative powers that are vested in—held exclusively by—the Congress. One of these powers is the right to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal” (Section 8, paragraph 11). Further, Section 10, paragraph 1, of this Article reads:
No State [...]
The Bathtub, Mencken, and War
Wendy McElroy is a contributing editor of The Freeman.
Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag. Not a governor proclaimed a day of prayer,” wrote H.L. Mencken on December 28, 1917, in the New York Evening Mail. The occasion for the iconoclastic journalist’s lament was “A Neglected Anniversary,” so titled [...]
Wars Other Casualty
Wendy McElroy is the author of The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival (Prometheus Books, 1998) and a contributing editor of The Freeman.
War is the health of the State.”Those famous words are contained in Randolph Bourne’s essay “The State,” written in response to America’s participation in World War I, but left unfinished because [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
