Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

In an interview on C-Span, a New York Times reporter named Jan Hoffman, the principal writer ~f the 200-word obits that continue to appear, noted …

– 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 …