Buckley's Definition of "Liberal"

"They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and...

The Holocaust, Meaning, Survival, and Logotherapy

Of those who survived Auschwitz, one man made a committed effort not just to survive, but to have a reason for himself and the world why he survived.Viktor Frankl, an Austrian state attorney turned psychiatrist, nearly died in the camps. He witnessed that many of his...

Americans for Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction

ATR founder Grover Norquist proferred the following conflicted assertion:"The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spedning, not to focus on the deficit."Yet the deficit is part and parcel of Big Government, which demands relief for the huge...

Cut spending . . .But where, and How Much?

The Republicans, since taking power in the House of Representatives, have become the poster-party for internecine faction-fighting (also in the growing Republican minority in the Senate). To close widening expenditure gaps in the federal budget, either the government...