To Boldly Go Where One Guy Has Gone Before
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 …
Category: Reflections
A Beautiful Equilibrium
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 …
What’s Your Shelf?
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 …
PC Terrorism
Only days after the attack on the World Trade Center, I was solicited to join a terrorist group. I do not exaggerate – I was …
Hypocrite, M.D.
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 …
Don’t Write, Don’t Call
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, …
Holiday in Paradise
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 …
Robert Nozick, R.I.P.
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 …
Draft Evasion: $10,000, Smoking Marijuana: $25,000, Living in a Civil Society: Priceless
Criminal penalties are not prices. Occasionally the idea surfaces that the schedule of penalties for felonies and misdemeanors is a price list. By implication, people …
The Good, The bad, and the “Good” Bad
How many people who believe that Andrea Yates killed her children because she is insane would stop believing it if they learned, say, that she …