Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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, …

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 — …

While the public is rightly growing alarmed at the explosion of national debt, another debt disaster is growing. As noted in The Wall Street Journal …

A fair description of President Obama’s agenda is that it is “neosocialist.” This means that his goal is not necessarily to nationalize all industries (though …