Category: Reflections

Remembering Paul Goodman’s declaration that the state should not be in the business of licensing sex (i.e., “marriage/l), let me suggest that it also shouldn’t …

The “Real Scotsman” fallacy is based on an old joke where MacGregor says to MacTavish, “Every Scotsman loves haggis.” MacTavish replies, ” I can’t stand …

The other night was a rarity: I actually learned something from TV. The History Channel was recounting a lottery scandal of some years back in …

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 …

The Bushian short-sighted miscalculation has been tax cuts favoring the rich while running up deficits that will eventually need to be paid off not by …