Category: Reflections

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 …

Both the Senate and the House votes on the war on Iraq, perhaps the most important issue of the day, were instigated as a way …

I was recently offered the opportunity to teach a course in business ethics by the department chair. I declined, being a logic and critical thinking …

The current debate over illegal immigration has become very emotional and heated, I suspect in part because nobody has coherently addressed the issue. In my …

Office report finds that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is notorious for harassing private employers for dubious reasons, hasn’t been exactly diligent when …

The Giving USA foundation just released a report showing that needs created by the tsunami, Katrina, and Pakistani earthquake disasters pushed charitable giving in 2005 …