Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …