The Book of Summer
Each year at this time, Liberty invites a number of interesting people to recommend books that they find interesting, for pleasant or challenging summer reading. …
Permanent Evacuees
I acknowledge that some refugees from flooded New Orleans were sick or elderly, and they didn’t want to flee their homes; however, nearly a year …
Filmnotes – November 2006
Attitude – Many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s (the post-Baby Boom, pre-Gen X generation) became politically aware through the music …
Booknotes – July 2006
The redneck and the black Thomas Sowell must be read to be believed. Merely to characterize him as a “black conservative,” as many people do, …
The Books of Summer
If you put a lot of marbles in a jar, then ask a thousand passers-by to estimate the number of marbles, the answers will vary …
The 2005 Mainstream Movie Awards
Hollywood’s picks for the Oscars this year demonstrate the industry’s utter disdain for the viewing public. Of the twelve films nominated in the top categories …
A Life in Liberty
Raymond William Bradford – “Raymond” was never used – was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 20, 1947, the son of Raymond and Eleanor Ritter …
Booknotes – January 2002
A Fool and His Tax Dollars by T. E. Ruppenthal The Sixteen-Trillion Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal …
Who Was Shakespeare, After All?
If what Evelyn Waugh wrote is true – “personal experiences are a novel- ist’s capital, to be hoarded, and spent only with prudent avarice” – …
Freedom in China
What this means, as I discovered in a recent visit, is the freedom to smoke in an ordinary hotel room or restaurant; the freedom to …