Category: Reflections

Bush vs. Patton – Administration figures are try- ing their hardest to fend off calls for a timetable for troop withdrawal: • George W. Bush, …

NORTH POLE – In response to Denmark’s announcement in October 2004 that it was exploring the possibility of claiming the North Pole as part of …

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of several civil-rights organizations, claiming that a …

Like many, I’ve been intrigued by the proliferation of quality wines from the newer growing areas of the world. So when I saw an interesting …

The battle between bourgeois and bohemian was probably the longest-running vaudeville comedy act in Western history, each thwacking the other with rolled-up newspapers for about …

The reports of God’s death, written by Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx, and others in the 19th century, were, in Mark Twain’s immortal phrase, greatly exaggerated. God …

Jude Wanniski, who recently died, will be remembered as the trumpet of supply-side economics on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal in the …

Sometime around the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century, nations began to have identity crises, like the individuals who compose …

Judge Stephen Reinhardt writes in a letter to the editor in the November Harper’s: “There is indeed a constitutional philosophy that is preferable to minimalism …

The moral hazards that contributed to the destruction of New Orleans and other parts of the Southeast were even greater than we thought. We all …