Category: Reflections

I don’t watch reality shows and I haven’t seen any of the presidential debates. But I repeat myself. Listening to inside-the-beltway friends talk about the …

According to Peter Baker, reporting for the Washington Post, President Bush recently “raised the specter of World War III” over his issues with Iran. Further …

If Mike Huckabee ever follows Fred Thompson into an acting career, he would be ideal for the role of Buzz Windrip in a film version …

I can’t get enough of John Edwards complaining about “Two Americas” from the porch of his mansion, bemoaning the shrinking middle class while getting a …

When, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton broke down and cried, I felt for her. Here is an intelligent and capable …

– Mandatory seat-belt laws are about public health – and maybe some other things. Consider a case from Washington state. In Everett, north of Seattle, …

In 1787 Alexander Tytler, a Scottish history professor, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: A democracy …

If you think the annual American Economic Association (AEA) meetings are stuffy affairs of ivory-tower academics, think again. This year’s event was held in the …

At the end of 2007, the New York Times announced that it had hired Bill Kristol as an op- ed columnist. A curious development, to …

On Dec. 3 of last year, the United States government released an intelligence report stating that Iran was not in fact building a nuclear bomb. …