Category: Reflections

Generally reluctant to vote Republican, I would have nonetheless supported Jack Kemp for president simply because of his passionate positions on free enterprise and race …

Wise men, from the first millennia suburbs of Athens to today’s Ph.D.s in linguistics at MIT, have long observed that if a problem, social or …

In modern economic parlance, the terms inequality and inequity are sometimes used interchangeably to mean unfair. This is not good. Used properly, inequality is a …

Isn’t it amusing that the suitor forced on Chrysler, which the auto company expected to rescue it from bankruptcy, has a name in English – …

A recent report high- lights a thorny problem for any and all would-be populists – class envy, the leveler, is blind to what nail it …

When I first joined the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, I was puzzled by my fellow reformers’ positions on free speech at universities. On …

I recently visited an old friend who’s been through some trouble in his personal life: a death in his family and the death of his …

One of the major arguments given against educational vouchers by opponents of school choice is that parents – meaning poor, inner-city parents – are intellectually …

There has been such a flurry of leftist initiatives being shoved through by the Democrats in Washington that it is hard to keep track of …

Back in 1980, as a response to the United States’ continued appeal to Fidel Castro to tear down Cuba’s sugar cane curtain, and to our …