Category: Reflections

Strangely, Rudy Giuliani maintains a reputation in some quarters as libertarian-friendly on the social issues – especially those related to “getting government out of the …

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 …

Ed Henry has reported for CNN that, according to a soon-to-be-released book based on off-the-record talks, former President Gerald Ford thought that former President Bill …

According to the AFP: “Ten doctorate students from China’s elite universities are calling for a boycott of Christmas and urging people to revert to Chinese …

In the ’30s and ’40s, when the world was young and naive, Freud and his fellow psychotherapists had legions of followers. Theories of human behavior …

One of the terrors of writing on the depredations of government is that of seeing one’s metaphors become flesh. When Lysander Spooner .wrote of the …

Jan. 1, 2008 is the 145th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in America. There has always been a historical debate over whether …

The president recently vetoed an SCHIP funding bill and the Democrats trotted out a “victim” to try to put a face on the issue. Twelve-year-old …

Several kinds of behavior fall into a pattern when we see them as examples of the delusion of competence. Political position, fame, celebrity, or supposed …