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 1990, I wanted to go from India to America for postgraduate studies. A few days before my visit to the U.S. consulate in Mumbai …

Mayor Bloomberg of New York shocked many by saying that not only shouldn’t we deport 11 million illegal immigrants but we need millions more of …

While hardly anybody was paying attention, Congress voted to give itself a pay raise. Or to be more specific, voted against voting on the subject …

This unbelievable paragraph appeared in the New York Times, online: “With his bushy beard and his booming anti-American rhetoric, Mr. Castro, who turns 80 next …

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. …