Amy Chua, who is a law professor at Yale University, has a new book out: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The book describes the parenting methods Professor Chua employed when raising her two daughters, now aged 18 and 14. An extract published in the January 8 Wall Street Journal caused a small sensation. Within... Read More

[That's not a typo in the reference tag, by the way. "APA" stands for "Asian Pacific American," a newer term than "Asian Pacific Islander." Obviously modeled on "African American," the preferred term since the 1970s for Americans visibly of black-African ancestry or part-ancestry, "APA" seems to have originated in the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section... Read More

Malcolm Muggeridge had a story about his days as a newspaper correspondent in Moscow during the time of the Stalin famines. He went with a Russian colleague to see a Chekhov play. Afterwards he asked her what she thought of it. "I can't see what they were all so unhappy about," replied the woman. "They... Read More