Category: Reflections

Scene: a rural hospital in the Congo. A man lies on a bed, vomiting, bleeding, dying. He is only the first: already three more with …

That supreme satirist William Schwenk Gilbert – of Gilbert and Sullivan fame – once remarked that “things are seldom what they seem – skim milk …

In Paris and Nantes, a student revolt simmered for months, then boiled over in May of 1968. Students and activists of that generation became known …

Imagine, if you will, that tomorrow at noon, possession of marijuana is slated to become legal Not just decriminalized, but made completely lawfuL Should the …

While checking out of a hotel room the other day, I noticed that the room rate posted on the back of the door was way …

The world seems divided into those who regard such terms as race and diversity as important and those who blithely let them go by. Most …

I was annoyed when the Left kept bringing up Enron as if it were the emblematic capitalist company. Now I begin to accept it, at …

Hillary Clinton’s quick- out-of-the-gate start has put her way ahead of her fellow Democrats in “the hunt for the great American Catholic voter of 2008,” …

CNN reports that Brian J. Doyle, a deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been arrested on charges of using his …

I’ve heard a lot of environmental activists advocate a “New Manhattan Project” for finding an alternative to petroleum. It makes for a really tasty sound …