Category: Reflections

Time was when the United States went to pains to declare that its overseas military operations were either defensive or came at the behest of …

The Andrea Yates murder case underscores the insult to us all that the psychiatric worldview represents. Living well requires effort. It takes work to think …

Stefan Heym, who died recently in Israel at 88, was one of the most provocative, indomitable writers I ever met. Born in 1913 with the …

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 …

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 …