Category: Reflections

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 …

A little-noticed news item in The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 9) reports that the extremely virulent form of anthrax – the Ames strain – was …

I went to a talk early in November by a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Walter Russell Mead. With regard to foreign …

“After great pain a formal feeling comes.” That’s about where we are now, those of us who didn’t lose anyone we loved on Sept. 11. …

People are being asked to spend, spend, spend – out of patriotism and to forestall economic depression. But spending in itself does not prosperity make. …

The new anti-terrorism act includes a laundry list of new powers for the federal government. But the issue, as is often the case, is ‘not …

Come January 2002, 300 million people in twelve European countries will start using the Euro exclusively instead of their domestic notes. The new European notes …

When is a “stimulus package” not a stimulus but a drag? When it relies on coercion – taxes or inflation – to pay the costs …

President Bush was the first president to attend a World Series game since Ronald Reagan. He threw the first pitch and it was a perfect …

Hearing all the blather directed at those who would apply the rule of law even to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, I am reminded …