Category: Reflections

– 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, …

War has united America, for the moment. But under the surface, thoughts are dissimilar. One of the keys to what we think is how we …

Dick Armey’s announcement that he would not seek re-election to the House of Representatives comes as bad news for libertarians. Armey has been an unusual …

Michael Lewis exemplifies the persona that gives rise to the famous story about Lenin when he stated at a rally”we’ll live to see all capitalists …

In 1984 Congress passed a law declaring all human organs a national resource, and subsequently forbade sales of organs. This denied any claims an individual …