Category: Reflections

Ellsworth Toohey, the villain in Ayn Rand’s famous novel, “The Fountainhead,” is an intellectual foe of individualism. One of his ideas is that people need …

I’m tired of environmentalists who say we can easily reduce our nation’s energy consumption, but have no idea how to do it. I guarantee that …

Over lunch recently, a friend announced, “American politicians could learn a lot from Ariel Sharon.” “You mean they could be even more aggressive and militaristic …

It was the theme of Paul Weaver’s book, “News and the Culture of Lying” (1994), that journalism too often leaves out the good stuff because …

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 …

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,” …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …