Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

Imagine an America in which prayer was part of the daily ritual in public schools. Imagine an America in which most of those schools celebrated …

To show my opposition to Washington’s new smoking ban, I plan on doubling my tobacco consumption: now I will smoke two clove cigarettes each month …

At one end of Terminal C in the Minneapolis airport there is a large mural of the African veldt, with a running antelope and cheetah. …

The U.S. government recently placed a new quota on imports of cheap hand-sewn brassieres from China. As a result, Chinese brassiere makers are trying to …

On November 8, California suffered a disaster worse than any eight-point earthquake. Voters spurned Governor Schwarzenegger’s attempts to limit the power of the modern liberal …

My local paper tells me in glaring black headlines that “Violence in France is slowing.” Good news – I read on. I find that this …

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 …