Category: Reflections

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 …

I am looking at a news article entitled, “Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth.” This is an opportunity to see what “science” reporting is like today. …

Students went into protest mode at The New School in New York City when the university’s president, Bob Kerrey, former governor of Nebraska and a …

The Mexico U.S. border is 1,254 miles long. That’s about 6.6 million feet. Working three eight-hour shifts per day, placing guards one and a half …

Alexander Pope said that “priests of all religions are the same.” This can also be said of politicians. A stock in trade of American politicians …

An Oklahoma woman purchased a motor home from Winnebago and on her first trip put the cruise control at 70 mph, then went back to …