Category: Reflections

“0 tempora, a mores,” lamented a Roman kibitzer named Cicero about two millennia ago. Oh the times, oh the customs! He thought the “civilized” world …

On a hillside in the midst of the giant Crown Hill Cemetery on the north side of Indianapolis, surrounded by nondescript foliage, not facing the …

I just received word that Ayn Rand’s novels, along with my book “The Making of Modern Economics,” have been pulled from the shelves of the …

Only 18 House Republicans voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in December 2005, including two who had voted against the Iraq war resolution …

Economies are booming in America and around the world. U.S. gross domestic product growth for the third quarter of 2005 was revised upward to over …

Stanley “Tookie” Williams founded the Crips, a California street gang that, to put it mildly, has done a lot of bad stuff. He himself was …

In Noblesville, Ind., a woman getting flu medicine from a corner store was accosted in the parking lot by two cops. They thought she was …

I got to thinking about failed states recently, especially in Africa, what with the news that 12% of South Africans may be HIV positive, the …

Freedom is usually lost in steps, for individuals or entire nations. As Scottish philosopher David Hume observed, “It is seldom that liberty of any kind …

Each side in a political dispute settles on its own version of history. Each may see an event from the same media eyes, but what …