National Review

Population Bombing

Ron Tang — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:46:00 -0400

In the 20th century, a global network of colluding activists, institutions, and governments sought to engineer solutions to various real and perceived social problems by, as Matthew Connelly puts it in his new book, planning "other people's families." In its most egregious expression, this movement led to the forced sterilization of millions of people around the world, including many thousands in the U.S., on the grounds that they were -- genetically or otherwise -- unfit. California alone had sterilized 7,500 people by 1931, and the practice continued in other states up until the 1970s.

This movement also, through philanthropies and government-directed… more

Letter From Riyadh

Articles — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0500

In the sprawling desert city where Osama bin Laden was born almost half a century ago, last week the Saudis held their first international counterterrorism conference. A couple of days after the conference ended, Riyadh was the first city to vote in the only nationwide elections that have been held since the modern Saudi kingdom was founded three quarters of a century ago. Neither the conference nor the election -- which was for only half of the seats on Riyadh's municipal councils -- was anything more than an incremental step along the road to an honest… more

Air Heads

Articles — Mon, 03 May 1999 00:00:00 -0400

In Things to Come, Alexander Korda's classic 1936 version of the novel by H. G. Wells, a petty dictator in a war-ravaged corner of Europe is waging a campaign against the neighboring "hill people." The year is 1970. The "Boss," a Milosevic type played by Ralph Richardson, is thwarted by Wings Over The World (WTW), a group of scientists and engineers planning to rebuild civilization along rational and cosmopolitan lines. Their colossal, high-tech aircraft easily best the Boss's primitive planes and humanely neutralize his population with the harmless, sleep-inducing Gas of Peace. Standing over the corpse of the Boss-a casualty,… more