Category: Reflections

On August 3, the Los Angeles Times ran a surprising story about my hometown. In just five years, the paper notes, L.A. may well be …

Beyond the entertainment value of its more childish expressions (think “The Jerry Springer Show”), disagreement is today generally avoided, in respectable society, as — well …

A direct-mail appeal for funds to fight the large corporations reminded me of how attitudes enter into public policy. José Ortega y Gasset diagnosed one …

Escaping mainstream media notice was another case in which Obama violated his promise to create the most transparent administration ever. As noted in the Washington …

Thomas E. Perez is the statist hack who heads the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. According to the DOJ’s website (employing no sense of …

How did the Gulf oil disaster happen? What does it mean, and what should be our petroleum policy be in the future? The blame for …

In May 2004, the price of a house in my hometown was going up by about 1% each month. At the time, my wife and …

Libertarian businessman Peter Schiff recently suffered a dismal loss in the Republican primary for senator in Connecticut, after a heroic run in which he gathered …

Ultra marathons are endurance- defying races of 50 or 100 miles. One of the toughest and most (in)famous of these races starts in Death Valley …

As we’re going to press for this issue, there’s a lively debate among economists about whether the United States is more likely to face deflation …