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Cathy Young

Cathy Young writes a weekly column for RealClearPolitics and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. She blogs at http://cathyyoung.wordpress.com/. She can be reached at cyoung@realclearpolitics.com

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  • A Rand Revival - February 8, 2010
    • Ayn Rand, the controversial Russian-born American writer, would have turned 105 years old on February 2. This anniversary takes place amidst a Rand mini-revival, sparked...
  • Holocaust Remembrance Day - January 29, 2010
    • Wednesdays Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year commemorates the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was marked by customary calls to combat...
  • World Sorely Misses Sakharov - December 21, 2009
    • Last week, an important anniversary went by far less noticed than it deserved: the twentieth anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century's greatest sons, the...
  • When Science Becomes a Casualty of Politics - December 9, 2009
    • In the unfolding debate over "ClimateGate," the affair of the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that offer an inconvenient...
  • Tiger Woods, Gender & Domestic Violence - December 2, 2009
    • As the news of golf superstar Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs spills all over the media, a fascinating - and disturbing - subplot to the story has become a...
  • Fort Hood Shooting Tests Our Values - November 22, 2009
    • The tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas earlier this month - the murderous rampage by Army major and military psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who fatally shot 13 people and...
  • Do East Germans Regret the Fall of the Wall? - November 13, 2009
    • The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was one of the most exhilarating events of the 20th Century. No one could fail to be moved by the joy of people who tore...
  • The Curious Case of Communist Nostalgia - RealClearWorld - November 12, 2009
    • The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was one of the most exhilarating events of the 20th Century. No one could fail to be moved by the joy of people who tore...
  • Kennedy's Big Government Paternalism - August 27, 2009
    • Ted Kennedy's death of brain cancer at 77 could not have occurred at a more symbolic moment. By the end of his life, the late Senator became the lion in winter of...
  • A Russian Reign of Terror? - July 27, 2009
    • The abduction and murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova in the conflict-ridden Northern Caucasus has been the latest crime to shake Russia's embattled...
  • Obama's Trip to Russia a Mixed Bag - July 12, 2009
    • While the mainstream media have hailed the advances in U.S.-Russian relations supposedly achieved on Barack Obama's trip to Moscow, some conservative commentary has...
  • Palin Is Not the Answer for Conservatives - July 7, 2009
    • Sarah Palin's announcement of her resignation as governor of Alaska may be the end of her political career or, as some speculate, the real beginning. What seems clear...
  • Obama's Trip to Russia - July 1, 2009
    • As Barack Obama's trip to Moscow next week draws near, there is much talk of a fresh start -- or, as Vice President Joseph Biden put it earlier this year, "pushing the...
  • Can J.D. Salinger Stop a 'Catcher in the Rye' Sequel? - June 23, 2009
    • Can the authorities in a free country ban a book? Surprisingly, the answer is yes: last week, a federal judge in New York imposed a temporary restraining order on the...
  • Hysteria From the Right and Left - June 16, 2009
    • Political hate speech has been all the rage in recent days. After the shocking attack at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC by a white supremacist, New...
  • "1984" 60 Years Later - June 10, 2009
    • This week marks the 60th anniversary of perhaps the most famous book of the 20th Century: George Orwell's "1984." It is a book that changed our language, giving us such...
  • Sonia Sotomayor and Racial Preference Cases - June 2, 2009
    • The debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has revived the debate over racial preferences - not only because of speculation that Sotomayor...
  • The Media, Islam & Political Correctness - May 27, 2009
    • Last week's arrest of four men in the Bronx, New York on charges of plotting to bomb two synagogues and shoot down a military aircraft with a missile has revived an...
  • The Shift Towards Single Motherhood - May 19, 2009
    • A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics with the dry title, "Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States," contains startling...
  • Lessons From World War II - May 13, 2009
    • This past weekend marked 64 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany and the Allied victory in Europe in World War II (May 8, except in Russia and a few other former...
  • Medvedev's First Year - May 6, 2009
    • Today marks the first anniversary of Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration as President of Russia. It is a strange anniversary of a strange presidency with a murky past,...
  • Interrogation Debate: Let's Have Some Humility - April 29, 2009
    • The release of the Justice Department "torture memos" has reignited the debate over the interrogation methods used by the Bush administration on terror suspects and the...
  • Before You Know It, Your Speech Could Be Offensive - April 22, 2009
    • Those who charge that modern-day liberalism has become fundamentally illiberal toward speech and ideas that challenge its own dogma could ask for no better illustration...
  • Marriage Culture War is Here To Stay - RealClearPolitics - April 14, 2009
  • Culture War Over Marriage is Here To Stay - April 14, 2009
    • The recent Iowa State Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, followed by the Vermont state legislature's vote to extend full marriage rights to same-sex...
  • 'Reset' With Russia Has Complications - April 8, 2009
    • Or should the "reset button" take us to 1991, when a new democratic Russia was born from the Soviet Union's ruins, with aspirations toward full integration into the West...
  • Israel Faces a Soul Searching Double Standard - March 31, 2009
    • The very question of whether similar soul-searching is being done by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization which is also the elected leadership of Gaza, would be...
  • A Lack of Reality About Women From Obama - March 25, 2009
    • In his remarks at the signing, Barack Obama noted that women have made great strides since the days when his grandmother encountered a glass ceiling after reaching the...
  • Charles Freeman and the 'Israel Lobby' - March 17, 2009
    • To start with: there was much more at stake in the objections to Freeman's nomination than his views on Israel, most notably his coziness with the ruling dictatorship in...
  • The Future of Russia Goes on Trial - March 10, 2009
    • The tax fraud charges against Khodorkovsky were notoriously convoluted. Whether he was technically guilty is almost beside the point: given what a mess Russia's laws...
  • Are We All Socialists Now? - March 3, 2009
    • This kind of rhetoric is not just the province of marginal firebrands. The New York Times reports that, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in...
  • Can Newspapers Survive? - February 24, 2009
    • On the first question, my answer is a resounding, though possibly self-serving "yes." While I am a fan of blogs, I believe they work best when the "mainstream media"...
  • Stimulus Fight Helps Bring Real Obama Into Focus - February 17, 2009
    • Touted as a plan to create jobs and stimulate consumer spending by pumping more money into the economy, the initial bill turned out to be a cornucopia of pet Democratic...
  • US Gets a Punch in the Nose From Russia - February 10, 2009
    • This Russian move may seem particularly baffling since the success of U.S. and NATO operations in Afghanistan is in Russia's interest. Plagued by tensions in some of...
  • Both Sides Guilty of Exaggerations in Torture Debate - February 2, 2009
    • Fox News talk show host Bill O'Reilly sneers that human rights activists would prohibit any treatment that makes detainees "uncomfortable" - as if we were talking about...
  • A Thaw in U.S.-Russian Relations? - Boston Globe - January 30, 2009
  • Obama, Race and Affirmative Action - January 26, 2009
    • The movement against race preferences has led to successful voter initiatives banning such practices in the public sector in California, Washington, Michigan, and most...
  • The Paradox of Bush - and Obama - January 19, 2009
    • Seeing oneself as a crusader against evil also creates a strong temptation to decide that the end justifies the means. Clearly, many of Bush's anti-terror tactics...
  • The Brewing Storm in Russia - International Herald Tribune - January 2, 2009
    • A year ago, Russia was in an odd place, between oppressive stagnation and a glimmer of possible change. The ruling party, United Russia, had just consolidated its hold...
  • Was Palin Candidacy a Step Forward for Women? - Newsday - November 10, 2008