A precept for Americans to follow in determining what is right - appropriately dubbed "American Rule of Thumb Number One" - is to identify what consensus the rest of the world has come to on any given issue, then take the opposite position. A second rule of thumb says that if the word "studies" is tagged onto the end of any college course, e.g., Environmental Studies, Native American Studies, Africana Studies, Toe Jam Studies, it is coming from a perspective far left of center. Rule of Thumb Number Three says that only a leftist - in this case a Women's...