Category: Reflections

This January in Chicago, the thermometer climbed to almost 60 degrees. The sun was out, and we had a beautiful, premature spring day. It was …

It’s typical of the behavior of this administration that when the Vice President managed to shoot somebody, it was by accident and it was a …

The Internet offers a wealth of information, much of it bogus. Thoroughly reliable resources, such as snopes.com, devoted to verifying or debunking urban legends, or …

Turnout was high, the debates were free and open, and, when it was all over, Hamas won big. Democracy, long worshipped by Victor Davis Hanson …

In late January the state of Washington passed a gay-rights bill banning discrimination against homosexuals in employment, housing, and accommodations. It was an odd issue: …

In 18th century England, criminal cases were privately prosecuted, usually by the victim, although by law any Englishman could prosecute any crime. In an old …

Stendhal famously said that he wrote for “the happy few.” Meanwhile it’s the unhappy few who have been causing most of the trouble since about …

Rumor mills were abuzz in the nation’s capital over the White House’s 24-hour news blackout regarding the Cheney “hunting accident.” Not since Richard Nixon’s infamous …

The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (JARS) just completed its seventh year of publication. When the journal was first published, we knew we had our …

I signed a lease on a new apartment the other day and noticed a clause that wasn’t in any of my previous, pre-Kelo v. New …