Govindappa Venkataswamy, R.I.P.
In his “Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith memorably described the advantages wrought by specialization and the division of labor in the “very trifling manufacture” of …
Category: Reflections
Mission Accomplished
In his article in the July issue of Vanity Fair, “The War They Wanted, the Lies They Needed,” Craig Unger, author of “House of Saud,” …
A Steady Diet
We are used to encountering garbage that is labeled “news,” but sometimes even the hardened troller for information is astonished by the smell. On August …
The Plight of the Worker
Paul Samuelson, strong Keynesian, 1970 Nobel Prize Laureate in economics, and author of the enormously successful college textbook, “Economics,” was right, once. Commenting in 1970 …
Make Songs, Not Films
One theme of Ron Randosh’s “Red Star Over Hollywood” (Encounter, 2005), among other recent books, is that scribbling warriors in the Communist-inspired Popular Front of …
Semper Fidel
Now that Fidel Castro has ceded power to his younger brother Raul, we realize the tragedy that he never got to write his memoirs about …
Free to Choose
Perhaps I’m a dreamer, but I believe that the obvious merits of free choice in K-12 education (often labeled”vouchers”) will eventually defeat the anti-choice propaganda …
What’s Past is Prologue
Sen. Ted Kennedy shepherded the Big Dig, Boston’s multi-billion dollar boondoggle, through Congress. Now that Kennedy boondoggle has killed a woman in a car. Gee, …
Do The Evolution
It’s hard to believe that the debate over evolution is still taking place in Kansas. Evolution is pretty much a fact that only a small …
Pat-Down to the People
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 …