Category: Reflections

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 …

The parade of televised U.S. presidential debates is ridiculously long, especially so early in the process – before even the first primaries. With so many …

One of the magic solu- tions for global warming pushed by those of greenish hue is wind power. The greenies tout wind power as a …

Norman Mailer is dead at 84. Demosthenes, when told of the death of Alexander the Great, said it could not be – for else the …

Another year has passed, and I have enlarged my carbon footprint by attending the 2007 edition of the Annual Conference of the Libertarian Alliance, in …