Category: Reflections

“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 …

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 …