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 …

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 …

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 …