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 …

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 …