Category: Reflections

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 …

Although the United States is often portrayed as an ecological villain for declining to sign the fabled Kyoto treaty, a British think tank reports that …

Can I be alone in thinking that the plodding pace of the prosecution of Saddam Hussein, imprisoned for over two years now, reflects a reluctance …

On the Saturday Show (Jan. 21), NPR commentator John Ydstie, in a statement called “Lobbying Reform: Not Likely!”, talked about the provisions of the various …

The cartoon crisis brings out a blind spot in libertarians. The best example is Virginia Postrel’s blog, with which I generally agree. But while embassies …