Category: Reflections

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 …

So I guess we’re supposed to accept the view that Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages in Moscow because of their hatred of Russia’s freedom and …

Two cheers for apathy — This is not an argument [cries of “Thank God!”]; it’s an observation. America is on the brink of war, but …

Whatta year it’s been. It seems like I no sooner finished making my ’01 deliveries when it’s time to make up my list for ’02. …

Editor Bill Bradford may be the expert of comparing state taxes (see the September issue of Liberty), but he can’t hold a candle to Price …