Steve Chapman is a columnist and editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune. His twice-a-week column on national and international affairs, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in some 60 papers across the country. Steve Chapman came to the Tribune in 1981 from the New Republic magazine, where he was an associate editor. Steve Chapman has contributed articles to several national magazines, including Slate, The American Spectator, National Review and The Weekly Standard. Born in Brady, Texas, in 1954, Steve Chapman grew up in Midland and Austin. Steve Chapman attended Harvard University, where he was on the staff of the Harvard Crimson. He graduated with honors in 1976 and later did graduate work at the University of Chicago. Steve Chapman has three children and lives in suburban Chicago. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman 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) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Barack Obama held out hope of overcoming partisan divides, lowering the temperature and bringing Americans together. How's that working out? Not well, it appears. One year after he was elected, Americans look more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/11/05/america_only_seems_polarized 03612188-01f7-4b7a-8edf-ca2a9195a5b1 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT I have seen the future of American politics, and it is big. Big and fat. You can get a glimpse of it in the New Jersey governor's race, which pits the slim, distance-running, Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine against... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/11/01/a_big,_fat_political_mistake e14ae937-15c5-472b-83fd-4288bf9b3714 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT If Medicare were a bank, federal regulators would be closing its doors, selling its operations and sacking its managers. Thanks to soaring costs, the program is fast running out of money -- even though it pays such low... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/29/the_unhealthy_public_option d7ed8236-b960-4874-b355-42e7eecf7ed4 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If you've been following the health care debate over the last couple of years, you may have heard the grim tale of Nataline Sarkisyan. Just 17 years old, afflicted with leukemia, she needed a liver transplant, but... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/25/creators_health_care_delusions,_left_and_right 8ab1f566-e692-4b62-9763-fedde82155fe Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT In 1973, Robert Randall was going blind from glaucoma when he discovered that smoking marijuana seemed to help his condition. That didn't matter to police when they found the Washington, D.C., resident growing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/22/from_obama,_sanity_on_marijuana 919a514f-8417-471f-8cca-80e4ae1d1032 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT When inflation hits, every dollar in your bank account is worth less each day. Deflation is just the opposite: You put your feet up and watch your money grow in value. The latter is what is happening now to America's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/18/treating_the_elderly_like_spoiled_brats e8b32a29-dac4-49f5-83cd-d991f48e0f81 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Watching Washington policymakers in action, I sometimes think they make mistakes because of unrealistic goals, flawed thinking, blind obedience to party or dubious information. And sometimes I think they make... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/15/mortgage_madness,_again 818c46d2-1a5b-48fb-b5f1-0a4ab804eb3c Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Obese people and public-health scolds have one thing in common: a compulsion to keep behaving in a way that does not produce helpful results. The obese tend to keep eating too much and exercising too... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/11/fattening_the_nanny_state 0157d4fb-365f-44e6-8516-33e976bf4e85 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Since he's under attack for allegedly being a covert socialist, you would think President Obama would get some love from the overt socialists. But they sound about as enamored of him as Sean Hannity... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/08/obama_and_the_socialist_canard dda971cc-5697-4157-aa50-23b715293c21 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Abraham Lincoln was once asked how he liked being president. Bedeviled by secession and war, he recalled a story about a man who, when tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail, commented that "if it was not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/04/chicago_wins_by_losing 6f984f01-a7c4-49ea-96d7-be9c13f29b04 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If Shakespeare had ever written a play about Afghanistan, it would have been a tragedy, not a comedy. For the United States, Afghanistan has been one tragedy after another, with more looming ahead. In that part... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/10/01/the_tragedies_of_afghanistan 28380c6b-1569-4402-85f6-91b76c59c712 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT At least since 1994, when seven tobacco executives testified before Congress that they didn't think cigarettes were addictive, the public has not put great trust in those who sell carcinogens for a living. What... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/09/27/sweet_lies_about_kids_and_smoking 42504797-69a8-4d6a-b8d2-293e858f6e87 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT A new president, pursuing policies well within the political mainstream, evokes weirdly angry and intense denunciations from opponents -- a reaction hard to explain in terms of anything he has actually done. Does that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/09/20/race_and_the_opposition_to_obama f435f50e-21b6-4fe5-bb59-5b71c082a3a7 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT For years, I've been wishing for another Ross Perot -- a leader who would awaken the American people to the dangers of living beyond our national means through huge federal budget deficits. Now, at last, we have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2009/09/17/the_revenge_of_ross_perot 10ad22d7-84d8-4fcd-a0bf-f50bf7118be2 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT