There is something profoundly wrong on American campuses that smile on the desecration of theU.S. flag but prohibit damage to our enemies' banners.

Canada's experience demonstrates that government-subsidized housing finance is not necessary to promote home ownership.

Canada's government-financing operation looks superior to the one in the United States in candor, as well as credit performance, as it achieves equivalent home ownership levels.

It is a tribute to a polity dedicated to securing our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that we can enjoy our freedoms while taking them for granted, giving little thought to what makes them possible. But this inattention comes at a heavy price, paid in increased civic ignorance and decreased national attachment--both dangerous for a self-governing people.

Since September 11, 2001, a large majority of Americans have stated that the country is united on its most important values.

This summer, Washington was given patriotism and obscenity to deal with when the Supreme Court upheld the burning of the flag by an angry Gregory Johnson and when an embarrassed Corcoran Gallery cancelled an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpephotographs

If President Clinton, during his visit to Russia this week, were to confine himself solely to the official script, he would turn himself into a prop in a passion play enacted by the Kremlin.

Review of Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano (Manual for the Perfect Latin American Idiot), by Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa.