Category: Reflections

Perhaps it’s the fact that I have a 16-year-old who took up snowboarding this winter, but I think it’s kind of cool that U.S. respectability …

Perhaps it is a sign 6f ignominy to admit in a highbrow journal to reading comic strips, so I’ll confess only to “scanning” the funny …

Russia plans to send the second space tourist up to the space station, South African Mark Shuttleworth. NASA is again furious. The bureaucrats who run …

A Beautiful Mind is the first film that deals with a profound social issue that touches everyone and yet that few people mention or even understand …

Powell’s, a huge Portland, Ore. bookstore, is the only one I know that sorts political titles by the topic”ideology.” It offers an expansive acreage of …

Only days after the attack on the World Trade Center, I was solicited to join a terrorist group. I do not exaggerate – I was …

John Slade, M.D., died on Jan. 29 at a family home on Lake Burton in Rabun County, Ga., from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was …

A while back, the Kenyon Review warned prospective contributors that it “does not read unsolicited manuscripts during the months of April, May, June, July, August, …

Michael Diven, my local representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, raised a few eyebrows around town with his idea of a trip to Cuba to check …

On Jan. 23, Robert Nozick died of stomach cancer. He was 63. With the publication of Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974, Nozick singlehandedly made …