Snakebit
A recent article in Popular Mechanics discussed what I see as the beginning of the end for modern medicine. The antivenom for coral snakes will …
Category: Reflections
Path Not Taken
The iconoclastic Christopher Hitchens has been in the news, both because of his new autobiography, “Hitch-22,” and because he was recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer. …
Nuclear Family
An article by the always interesting Peter Huber in the excellent City Journal (Spring 2010) is well worth reading. It is about Stewart Brand, founder …
Signs of the Apocalypse
I watch C-SPAN while getting dressed in the morning. Callers address comments and questions to an official or expert in some field. The listener gets …
Weenies Run Amok
Some commentators have moaned that the public exposure of Journolist (a listserv group of snotty leftwing reporters, news producers, and other weenies) deals a mortal …
Et tu, Janet?
On July 15, Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security for the Obama administration, made the ultimate betrayal of her own state in favor of national …
Burying Byrd
On July 2, 2010, Sen. Robert Byrd was laid to rest in Charleston, West Virginia, where President Bill Clinton delivered a eulogy that, for the …
Life Without the State
At FreedomFest this summer I took part in a debate where I was given five minutes to make a case for liberty without government, or …
Workers’ Paradise
“Raul Castro has made halting efforts to open the economy, while exhorting Cubans to work harder and stop depending on the state for everything” (AP, …
Rating Confusion
Of course we all know the law of unintended consequences, but some of us don’t know that Robert Burns — Scotland’s eternal poet laureate — …