Motionless in Portland
Supporters of the light-rail claim that it will relieve congestion, but that is not what I saw in a column of numbers from the Texas …
The Limits of the Melting Pot
In “Open Minds, Closed Borders,” (January) Ken Schoolland, a university professor of economics and political science, offers the textbook libertarian case for open immigration. It …
Like Herding Cats
Andrew Sullivan writes that the war on terrorism has “discombobulated” libertarians. He has a point. Do defenders of liberty side with the state, because it …
The Cost of Empire
War has united America, for the moment. But under the surface, thoughts are dissimilar. One of the keys to what we think is how we …
Terror vs. Trade
I was talking the other day with a man seriously involved with public ports. He described how systems at airports and seaports were not designed …
Four Approaches to Foreign Policy
I went to a talk early in November by a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Walter Russell Mead. With regard to foreign …
“Goddamit, NO”
Stephen Cox has pored over Isabel Paterson’s weekly columns in the New York Herald Tribune. He has sifted her novels for autobiographical nuggets. He has …
All Wet
Charles Murray has a new idea: abolish the welfare state and replace it with an annual cash grant of $10,000 to every American. He has …