Technology will keep us in oil
Oil produced the modern world -- its ways of work, warfare and recreation -- and soon, we are told, the end of cheap oil will produce abrupt, wrenching changes in the way we live. Changes, certainly, but not convulsions, because the modern world responds to price signals.
Monday, June 7, 2004
Reagan knew the advantage of being underestimated
WASHINGTON -- One measure of a leader's greatness is this: By the time he dies the dangers that summoned him to greatness have been so thoroughly defeated, in no small measure by what he did, it is difficult to recall the magnitude of those dangers, or of his achievements. So if you seek Ronald Reagan's monument, look around, and consider what you do not see.
Sunday, June 6, 2004
Kerry shows he'll do anything to win
John Kerry recently stopped in Las Vegas to say: ''Rest assured, Nevada. If I'm president, Yucca Mountain will not be a depository.'' Back to mind comes Chic Hecht, a one-term Republican senator elected in 1982, who said he opposed using Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a nuclear waste ''suppository.''
Thursday, June 3, 2004
Upstart airline shows direction of industry
PHOENIX -- Douglas Parker seems normal. But he runs an airline, America West, and is cheerful, so what does he not understand? Preternaturally optimistic, he thinks government policy will become more sensible, other events will cooperate and the airline industry, which has been in the red since flight began at Kitty Hawk, will make money.
Sunday, May 30, 2004
Bush may have to shed some of his optimism
''If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft.'' -- Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton