Category: Reflections

Jim Crow is alive and well at CBS. The network has announced that contestants in the next “Survivor” will be divided into ethnic “tribes” including …

George Steinbrenner has always ranked among the most hated New Yorkers. I can recall decades ago watching a weeknight Yankee game on television when the …

Users of Microsoft’s instant-messaging services can now click a “Report Abuse” button to alert law- enforcement officials to a conversation with a child predator. A …

“I left because I didn’t feel safe anymore as a Christian,” a woman from Leba- non told me recently at dinner, explaining why she and …

On August 10, British police foiled a terrorist plot that apparently aimed to smuggle liquid explosives disguised as sports drinks onto aircraft and activate them …

Robert McNamara had been president of Ford Motor Co. for only seven weeks when President-elect Kennedy asked him to become secretary of defense. “I am …

Nobody “keeps” money. Money is worthless unless it is spent, and that’s what billionaires do. They try and spend it all. Often they spend it …

Forgive me for furtively grinning when I learned that the people of Mexico (still considered a third-world country) spend more money per year on books …

Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), the Tiger of the Senate, who so fiercely attacked corporate corruption, has suddenly lost his testicles. Sarbanes, you will recall, was the …

I received Professor Kevin Mattson’s new “Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century” (Wile~2006) as I read Lawrence W. Reed’s legitimate demolition of Sinclair’s “The …