John Leo is a columnist and editor of MindingTheCampus.com and a former contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report. Mr. Leo is a former associate editor fo Commonwealth magazine, a former book editor of the sociology magazine Society, and a former deputy commissioner of New York City's Environmental Protection Administration. He launched the "Press Clips" column in The Village Voice. His popular "Ralph & Wanda" dialogues -- imaginary conversations between a liberal feminist and her conservative masculinist husband -- began in Time magazine and later were featured in McCall's. Many of them are included in his book of humor How the Russians Invented Baseball and Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989). He lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:12:58 GMT Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:12:58 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Troy Scheffler, a graduate student at Hamline University in Minnesota, thinks that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been avoided if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons. After e-mailing this opinion... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/10/23/who_will_stand_up_for_campus_free_speech 8da25c2c-561e-4d98-8e73-48fa43053f40 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:12:58 GMT In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice "from local to global level." This call for mandatory advocacy raised the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/09/11/indoctrination_101 5498be85-d9b2-4d86-a503-0c95e62fabec Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:09:28 GMT If anyone ever starts a museum of horrible explanations, the one-liner by Newsweek's Evan Thomas about his magazine's dubious reporting on the Duke non-rape case - "The narrative was right but the facts were wrong" -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/08/10/brawley_case_of_the_south 87d73c67-00e6-40aa-a428-e58fae507b46 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:47:25 GMT In 1967, Newark erupted in gunfire, looting, and arson, killing 23 people and injuring 700. But 40 years later, the New York Times still is not certain that this event should properly be called a "riot." In a news... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/07/19/swerving_around_riots a4c8c6a6-50ea-4218-92fa-f406372e6626 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:42:24 GMT Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2007/06/26/bowling_with_our_own 575b45a3-c3a3-4d5d-ab83-6e62b9750026 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:07:29 GMT This is a farewell column. After 18 years of punditry, it's time to work on other projects, including a book. Now that I'm leaving, I should acknowledge that writing a column has to be one of the best jobs in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/08/13/thanks_for_letting_me_be_part_of_the_conversation 73bb3b5d-f0be-4079-a599-0cd9cf0efce6 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:00:50 GMT Remember when the city of Berkeley, Calif., declared itself a "nuclear-free zone"? Cynics snickered, but the plain fact is that no nuclear weapon has gone off in the city since that day. So the policy seems to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/08/07/zoning_challenges_now_extend_to_feelings_and_belief 99ee0ac4-9305-4239-8ee3-3516a618dd18 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:01:00 GMT Just when you think the debate over embryonic stem cells can't get any more degraded, an outfit called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution comes along and proves you wrong. The group took out two vitriolic full-page... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/07/31/slippery-slop_concerns_are_valid_over_stem-cell_research 5cbc73d1-780e-4a95-a0f9-e0cc454a8c92 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:01:00 GMT Brittany McComb's microphone went dead at her high school commencement because school officials thought she was talking too much about religion. This was during her valedictory speech last month at Foothill High School... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/07/17/free_speech_is_loser_where_religious_expression_is_concerned b9e2802e-36b0-48f8-8027-95505fbe6810 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:01:00 GMT Another baseball season has reached its midpoint, the All-Star break. This means it is surely time for all Americans to cast aside normal English and spend the week talking baseballese. Speakers of this arcane tongue go... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/07/09/brush_up_your_baseballese b67f1420-1def-4390-b44a-f19c7cadb493 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:56:31 GMT How do you get your opinions on Page One of The Washington Post? Do you phone the editor and say, "Here's what I think ..." No. You type up your thoughts and label them a "report" or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/07/03/boys_problems_in_school_need_attention 7fa4861d-c894-46bf-87f1-f881b22217c5 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT The South was once famous for "massive resistance." Now officeholders and civic leaders of the North and West are in the game too, this time to push "diversity" programs in defiance of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/06/26/officeholders_favoring_diversity_ignore_laws_they_dont_like d2e5db61-cd3a-4aa1-8dcd-55a75007705e Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT The governor of Maryland fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metro transit authority board for stating a negative opinion of homosexuality on a cable TV talk show. The board member, Robert Smith, had said:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/06/18/gays_have_emerged_as_the_new_protected_class_in_america e260b7c4-7941-43d4-8a69-8a953dc0dff4 Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:05:00 GMT Writing in Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assures us that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. This popular conspiracy theory has attracted many Democrats, from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/06/11/the_left_promotes_assertions_that_turn_out_to_be_false 521eb916-3a93-4191-97b5-60c6d732fb05 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:05:00 GMT Peter Beinart thinks the left needs more anti-totalitarian liberals like Harry Truman and Scoop Jackson, and fewer anti-imperialist liberals (think moveon.org, Michael Moore and George Soros) who can't seem to take... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo/2006/06/04/liberals_need_new_narrative_that_takes_terrorism_seriously 64c2242a-95c0-457c-bd2f-b3ea6aa4b0ff Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:05:00 GMT