Category: Reflections

“What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that – far from ending there – our war against terror is only beginning.” Mr. Bush’s speechwriters wrote …

Recently I tried to discover information about a former colleague, now a full professor at a state university, who had been accused of plagiarism a …

The Bush administration is not his father’s Oldsmobile – I mean administration – but it isn’t Ronald Reagan’s either. Bush II is amenable to reducing …

Airport lines are getting longer all the time, as incompetent federal bureaucrats double the security they couldn’t provide in the first place. I can make …

the word in its sloppy, voguish sense. It and similar words (incredibly, unbelievable/bly, and, on Spanish-language TV, incredibly, unbelievable /bly) are widely used nowadays as …

Kennesaw Mountain sticks out of the rolling piedmont of North Georgia like the preposterously vertical subject of some romantic Chinese watercolor. It is so steep …

Among the larger disappointments to those of us who look for – sometimes stretch for – hopeful signs in the world has been Mexican President …

It’s good, but is it believable? – Aristotle said that there are certain things you shouldn’t put into a work of imaginative literature, because people …

The Sept. 11 attacks naturally remind us of Pearl Harbor, and on Dec. 3 Robert Bartley, former editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, …

Savagery took a new twist in January when the Leader of the Free World was almost laid low by a rogue pretzel. During the course …