Category: Reflections

Well, the job numbers for August were released shortly before the Labor Day holiday, and the “recovery summer” that Uncle Joe Biden crowed about is …

It was March 20, 2003. The American Civil War film “Gods and Generals” had opened in only a few cities, and Manhattan was one of …

The Ground Zero mosque controversy must be the first time in history when politicians and bureaucrats have been afraid to interfere with a real-estate development. …

Politics is only part policy. It’s also a large part psychology. This is a point that policy-minded libertarians need to remember. We complain about the …

President Obama claims that the stimulus package was a rousing success, preventing the recession from getting much worse. Now(!) we learn that the recession ended …

Any notion that the Left is friendly to civil liberties should have been evaporated by a recent decision of the famously “liberal” 9th Circuit Court …

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, intended to create jobs and promote investment and consumer spending, provided funds for 11 full-body scanners to be installed …

It is a bittersweet moment, writing reflections for the final print version of Liberty. While I feel that the transition to the internet is long …

Many readers turn to Liberty’s Reflections section first. I can understand why, though the very first bit I always read is the liberty quote at …

At the state level at least, the biggest area of wasteful spending is public education. On August 22 the AP reported a perfect illustration of …