What if Napoleon had a

What if Napoleon had a B52 at Waterloo? - Modern technology - like "writing" and "books" - have degraded human memory. Since we don't have to remember things, but can put them in our diaries or tape recorders or Palm Pilots, human memory has been on a downswing for centuries - except among societies that lack, say, alphabets.

So who says the same thing isnt' happening to speech? With our plethora of aids to giving speeches - from the microphone to the Powerpoint multimedia display - is it possible that we're just not capable of performing the public displays of oratory that we used to?

Speechless - Jay Nordlinger writes about the effect of the current round of Mideast brouhaha on American campuses. And the stories are simply insane. The reaction on some of our elite campuses in many cases is not only anti-Israel, but anti-Semitic.

This is what goes on on the major campuses?