Category: Reflections

Twelve cartoons of Muhammad published in a Danish magazine sent Muslim fundamentalists into a frenzy. It is blasphemous to make any drawing of Muhammad, even …

James Carville said on talk radio that most Americans describe themselves as “socially liberal and economically conservative.” If that’s true, why isn’t the Libertarian Party …

The year was 1898. Uncle Sam wanted to fight a musical comedy war with Spain. Safe and short. A nobody-gets-hurt war. But in those years …

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 …