Category: Reflections

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 …

– There’s been a push lately to compare the Taliban to the right wing of American politics, and I can see the logic of the …

As Westerners, we have been much too judgmental about burqas; as if bagging up a nations worth of women has no purpose other than to …

I grew up in a big city where political campaigns mean glitzy TV ads and junk-mail fundraisers, so I was a bit surprised to find …

John McGinnis writes in a letter to the editor (February) that “the word ‘hysteria’ derives from the ancient Greek word for womb, and that the …

You feel a sense of relief when you leave behind a country caught in that never-ending cycle of violence, with all its consequences: The threat …

I’ve written pages before that the current inferno in Palestine began when Ariel Sharon marched with too many troops into the Old City of Jerusalem, …

The January 2002 issue of Maxim pointed out the notably large number of psychopaths who found Catcher in the Rye to be a very inspiring …