Category: Reflections

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 …

What this means, as I discovered in a recent visit, is the freedom to smoke in an ordinary hotel room or restaurant; the freedom to …

Jane Jacobs, who died on April 25 at the age of 89, revolutionized intellectual ideas about cities with her 1961 book, “The Death and Life …

Charles Murray has a new idea: abolish the welfare state and replace it with an annual cash grant of $10,000 to every American. He has …

I started reading Forbes magazine in college. It was a good break from the more esoteric stuff that I spent most of my time studying. …

Recent comments by Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia’s space agency, show the high intellectual level on which government science is conducted over there (and maybe …

History happens, not as a matter of cause and effect, but because of the buildup of instability in a naturally self-organized chaotic system to the …