Category: Reflections

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 …

Economists like Paul Krugman love to talk about the desperate lot of those who somehow can’t board the carousel of capitalism. No brass rings for …

Well, surprise, surprise! The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has gone from a $10 billion surplus in 2000 to a $23 billion deficit in 2005, and …

The traditional Israeli response to, say, the assassination of its Olympic team or the kidnapping of a soldier has been selective retaliation by its intelligence …

In an effort to show the merits of free-market capitalism, there are some who point out how vital to the existence of wealth are the …

President Bush was disingenuous, to say the least, in inviting babies born from embryos fertilized in vitro to the White House to watch him veto …