Category: Reflections

-For a-decade, Oregon has been pushing cities to concentrate their residents in high-density housing. But now the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) says that the …

The debate over whether airport security employees should be made federal employees is only half the story. It has been asked why a private airline …

The greatest World Series of all time is over,_and baseball now takes its rightful place again as the national pastime. Baseball is played by people …

Adrian Day suggests that airport security would be better if a single entity were responsible for it, whether that were the government or some private …

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 …