Category: Reflections

A reporter on a TV talk show asked Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta whether a 70-year-old white woman from Florida would receive the same level of …

As of this writing, U.S. military casualties in the War on Terrorism have come mainly from friendly fire, inadvertent U.S. killing of U.S. troops in …

The environmental lobby is always complaining that electricity suppliers are not interested in the environment. My local electricity supplier has just sent me a letter …

I may be overly sensitive to the things that politicians say. Certainly it’s a morbid tendency to follow political speeches with more attention than the …

I was talking the other day with a man seriously involved with public ports. He described how systems at airports and seaports were not designed …

This is a weird world. A good share of the mail that Liberty has lately received has excoriated us either for being absurdly pro-war or …

The government has become a good deal more popular of late, which raises some interesting questions for the sociology of knowledge. According to a New …

Friday, Oct. 19: My wife and I are on the Jersey Turnpike heading into the Holland Tunnel, a frequently mentioned target of Islamic terrorists, a …

Weekly Standard for Nov. 5, David Brooks observes that “the next few years will be defined by conflict. . . . We will destroy innocent …

Often we hear people wondering what it is that holds Americans together. We are so diverse ethnically, religiously, politically, and philosophically; many worry that we …