Category: Reflections

Time was when the United States went to pains to declare that its overseas military operations were either defensive or came at the behest of …

The Andrea Yates murder case underscores the insult to us all that the psychiatric worldview represents. Living well requires effort. It takes work to think …

Stefan Heym, who died recently in Israel at 88, was one of the most provocative, indomitable writers I ever met. Born in 1913 with the …

“If it saves just one human life, it’s worth it.” That’s how opponents of free markets have justified hundreds of environmental and safety regulations. And …

In Washington (the state in the Pacific Northwest, not the Death Star on the Potomac), a media frenzy has developed over what appears to dispassionate …

The Bush administration’s decision to abandon its free trade position to protect the domestic steel industry is distressful. Even Clinton didn’t give in to this …

Manchild in a Promised Land (1965) first appeared, I was a Columbia University graduate student, living as a Caucasian in a low-rent public housing project …

The Pacific Research Institute’s Washington Bulletin – accepting reluctantly that the War on Terrorism will involve restrictions on freedom, inconveniences, and outright hardship – suggests …

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 …