Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Obama administration’s talk of transferring oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau from the Department of Commerce to the White House staff turned over a …

February 6, 1788; James Madison publishes “The Federalist” No. 51: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, …

At his March 25 press conference, President Obama answered questions about his plan to drop the charitable deduction of the top 5% of income earners …

I find myself in no-man’s land defending (almost) the unimaginable action of a government official firing the CEO of a publicly owned company. Stormed at …

On March IS, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) suggested that executives of AIG should consider suicide. You may recall that on that date the furor erupted …

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer has begun an attempt at reputational rehabilitation. His main device has been a series of columns spewing conventional wisdom …

Recently, the Chinese have urged the “world community” – read, countries like theirs – to adopt a new currency as a counterbalance against the U.S. …