Category: Reflections

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 …

On July 29, a commentator on Fox News responded to a question from Juan Williams about the amazing amount of money that the Clintons devoted …

On July 11, Robert Gibbs, the roly-poly, happy-go-lucky White House press secretary, told a television interviewer that his party might well lose the House in …

I believe that a major turning point in the decay of the American political world came in the 1950s, when campaign managers shifted away from …

In Arizona, where I live, the battle over immigration law has become hysterical. People are flinging charges like “racist” at one another in the way …

A few months ago I received a curious letter. I put it with some other junk mail and just recently had the chance to go …