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June 26, 2007     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Robert Putnam's sobering new diversity research scares its author  Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, ...
 
May 7, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
One of the bloggers suggests that 2006 may be the year of the Lou Dobbs voter. The blogger, the Influence Peddler, is no fan. He ...
 
April 2, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
In his 1995 book "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy," the late Christopher Lasch argued that America's political and cultural elites ...
 
February 13, 2005     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Some 10,000 to 20,000 Americans, unable to come to terms with the re-election of President Bush, are believed poised to leave the United States ...
 
September 19, 2004     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Thanks to columnist Michelle Malkin, we are at last moving toward our first national discussion on the wisdom and fairness of interning 100,000 ethnic ...
 
March 28, 2004     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Dick Lamm, public policy gadfly and former Democratic governor of Colorado, is being denounced these days as a right-wing extremist, a neo-Nazi and a ...
 
January 11, 2004     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Politicians from both parties think President Bush's immigration plan is unusually deft, mostly because nearly every constituency seems to get something. Big business is ...
 
September 14, 2003     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Asked what he thought about illegal immigration, the late singer-politician Sonny Bono replied: "It's illegal." Nowadays, of course, referring to illegal immigration as somehow ...
 
May 1, 2002     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Getting a social reform passed is tough enough. Next comes the harder problem of dealing with stubborn resistance from bureaucrats who refuse to ...
 
September 25, 2001     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
In the view from my office window, the white cloud rising over the remains of the World Trade Center is on the left, ...
 

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