Silly Season 2008
Presidential campaigning started much earlier than usual – not just several months or even a year before the election but a full 15 months. To …
Tapping the Tower of Babel
From the strategic point of view, I’m not totally opposed to government wiretapping in the United States, as the truth of terrorism is that the …
Vote Plutocraft
The reigns of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine so far suggest a political truth most of us would be …
IQ of Canines May be Overrated
Some- times the gullibility of American news dogs appalls me. In the wake of the arrests of putative Pakistani-Brit terrorists at Heathrow Airport, I heard …
The Two Theaters of Politice
At a 1990 conference among Liberty editors, I suggested that the most appropriate literary mode for libertarianism was comedy, because both are concerned with what …
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
Regarding the recent spate of school shootings: why is it that the media are (or pretend to be) the last to understand copycat crimes that …
Pay the Cost to Have the Boss
George Steinbrenner has always ranked among the most hated New Yorkers. I can recall decades ago watching a weeknight Yankee game on television when the …
AIDS Reconsidered
Since WGBH-NET’s Frontline gained its reputation as the most serious American documentary producer on airwave television, precisely by go- ing beyond conventional understandings, I was …
Make Songs, Not Films
One theme of Ron Randosh’s “Red Star Over Hollywood” (Encounter, 2005), among other recent books, is that scribbling warriors in the Communist-inspired Popular Front of …
Semper Fidel
Now that Fidel Castro has ceded power to his younger brother Raul, we realize the tragedy that he never got to write his memoirs about …