Category: Reflections

Can anyone explain the linger- ing campaign of former Sen. John Edwards? A less-apt candidate for the U.s. presidency would be hard to find. He’s …

The September issue of Scientific American reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s”failed rebuilding after Katrina [has] set off a mental health crisis in the …

You have to give some grudging admiration to the teachers’ unions: in the cause of single-minded, unscrupulous protection of their turf, they will do whatever …

The AP release out of London, headlined on AOL News Oct. 29, says it all: “Schwarzenegger Calls Pot ‘Leaf,’ Not Drug.” The story did not …

Reports of Castro’s timely demise are only partially exag- gerated. The Miami rumor mill has been so flooded with reports of his death kept secret …

Westerners would prefer that Pakistan be democratic. But having watched TV and seen the rioting mobs on Pakistani streets, not to mention the faces of …

After John Kerry embarrassed himself with a crack about the soldiers in Iraq, many remembered how grateful they were the day he lost his bid …

The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 11) reports that there are more Asian students on our college campuses than are warranted by the percentage of Asians …

At first blush, the views advanced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and Lysander Spooner could not be more at odds. The leaders …

At a 1990 conference among Liberty editors, I suggested that the most appropriate literary mode for libertarianism was comedy, because both are concerned with what …