When Elites Go Bad
On April 21, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the case of Savanna Redding. Six years ago, when Miss Redding was a 13-year-old eighth grader, …
Category: Reflections
Free Car Care for All
In one fell swoop, President Obama made the federal government the new owner of General Motors. So rather than allowing the company to reorganize on …
Turtle Power
My wife and I are avid technical rock climbers. Our favorite cragging area is Red Rocks Recreation Area, a BLM park outside Las Vegas, Nevada. …
Medium and Message
The death of the Rocky Mountain News and the print version of the Seattle PostIntelligencer have led to lots of handwringing about the future of …
Capital Idea
Our government is turning us all into guilt-ridden idiots. Can anyone truly believe that the way we are going to come out of this recession …
Augean Stables
Yet more scandals have surfaced about Democrats in Congress – you remember, the ones who ran on the solemn pledge to clean up corruption? And …
Stuffing the Box
As the Democrats continue their long march through our institutions, aiming to turn this country irreversibly Left, more news comes out. In a story that …
Uprooted
I can’t remember where I picked up this metaphor, though I’m quite sure I didn’t invent it: the free market as a natural ecology, totalitarian …
Value-less
For years Warren Buffett was, by most reckonings, the richest man in the United States. And for years, as if to confound his fans and …
Line Break
In the March edition of Liberty, I compared the Republican margin in the Senate, the one that denied the Democrats a supermajority, to the 18th-century …