It has taken a few days to decompress and collect my thoughts on the election results, and I must admit that there really weren’t many surprises, because in hindsight this one was pretty well determined some weeks ago, particularly after the market meltdown that began in mid-September. Many of us had hoped until the end that the […]
Archives for 2008
Texas Transportation Infrastructure: Establishing Policy Priorities
I am pleased to include the following commentary and pass along an invitation to the 23rd Public Conference of The Texas Lyceum Association, an organization of which I am proud to have been a founding Director 28 years ago as well as a Past Chairman. The Texas Lyceum continues to perform a commendable service to the […]
Rethinking Outdated Institutions
My wife and I just returned from a delightful 12-day tour of New England, one of the stops on which was the beautiful old Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which of course was the site of the international monetary conference in 1944 that established the world monetary system that lasted until 1971 […]
Where is the Apology?
After 55 years, we can finally close the case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed as Communist spies in 1953, but whose guilt has been consistently denied by fellow travelers on the left in this country, in spite of the evidence presented then as well as condemning revelations from KGB files released upon the […]
Stop the Presses
Whatever the backlog of subjects I had in mind for this issue, they have been blown away by events that have overwhelmed even what is shaping up as a watershed presidential campaign. In fact, aside from their respective economic policy strategies if elected, the two presidential nominees are pretty irrelevant to the urgency of the crisis, and both […]
Summer Books
Nobility of Spirit, by Rob Riemen A thin, but powerfully written book in which man’s dual nature is explored and the spiritual side highlighted. Riemen emphasizes the importance of the world of ideas in the classical sense and appeals to our intellectuals to take seriously their role as the guardians of universal values such as […]
Above His Pay Grade?
One wonders, if life and death policy judgments predicated on the point at which the sanctity of human life begins are beyond Barack Obama’s pay grade, what other life and death issues in this morally conflicted world does he consider beyond his capacity? Or, at a minimum, if he considers this judgment too close to call, why not give […]
Cold War Redux?
In his 1835 classic, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville was prescient in his characterization of the Russians and the Americans: “The American struggles against the obstacles which nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russians are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms. The […]
The Campaign for Gridlock
A recent essay by P. J. O’Rourke in Cato’s Letter caught my attention and sent me back to Jonah Goldberg’s insightful book, Liberal Fascism, which I reviewed earlier this year. O’Rourke’s thesis, which parallels the essential message delivered by Goldberg, is that the problem in the conflict over issues in public discourse is politics; in other […]
The Death of a Prophet
“Truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit………..truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”–Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard University, June 1978. The death this week of Alexander Solzhenitsyn eliminates one more among the few really significant personalities who, along with Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Lech Walesa, converged […]
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