Category: Reflections

Karl Marx, building on Hegel, noted that history repeats itself first as tragedy, and then as farce. Had he foreseen the War Against Pot, perhaps …

According to a 1997 biography, “Tiger” (written byJohn Strege, a sportswriter at my paper), Tiger Woods fell in love with golf at the ripe old …

It is always wise to be cautious in commenting on a trial that one has not attended from start to finish. But from everything I …

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 …

Before they got religiously green, the Western Europeans killed almost all their wolves and bears. What’s left of their wildlife is pretty timid. In America, …

I see in the Wall Street Journal, May 2, that the silvery skyscraper planned for the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York …

Some things in the news are just too funny to go unnoticed. There is a silly dust-up over in Greenwich Village at the New School …

On June 26, Iran, the world’s fourth-largest producer of oil, announced that it will have to start rationing gas.

Toallbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, country-club conservatives, Democratic Party activists, and libertarian political fundamentalists: Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m sorry to interrupt the celebration you’re …

First it was Teddy, now his son Patrick … clearly, we should view the Kennedys’ use of chauffeured limousines not as a perk, but as …