Just one day after the tragic shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial, London’s Daily Mail confirmed a ominous connection: “White supremacist who opened fire ‘has links to the BNP.’” With the ...

Yglesias says: The crux of the matter is that while truly conservative foreign policy thought has a long history of wrongness in the United States it’s rarely genuinely held sway on the big issues. Presidents ...

The fourth and last time I debated at the Oxford Union was three or four years ago, and it was a total disaster. The motion was that Katrina’s aftermath was Bush’s fault, and I was against it. A quarter of a century ...

The night Diana died I was dining with Jeremy Menuhin, son of the great violinist, and my close friend Oliver Gilmour, a symphony orchestra conductor.  This was in Gstaad, and we got into an argument over ...

September’s unemployment figures were not only disappointing—they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work—5 million for more than six months. But as ...

During the big health scare of the mid-1800s, vaccination became compulsory in Britain and parts of America, and, believe it or not, vaccine certificates were required for travel. The health scare then was smallpox, and ...

As the curtain went up on La Bohème, I guessed the point they were making almost immediately, and maybe I even agreed with some of the sentiment at the heart of it. The lead tenor, the lead soprano, and the second lead ...

In the candidacy of Barack Obama, one sees the history of the American Left writ small. Obama is an heir to the paternalist dynasty of the populists, progressives, New Deal, and Great Society; the Hull House-style passivism ...

Dodi was not sleeping with Diana, hence if she were pregnant at the time of her death, it would have been a far greater story than it was. It would have been the second Immaculate ...

We inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression. That is the reflexive response of President Obama to the troubles from which he has been unable to extract his country. Even before the inauguration, he says, ...

Here's a sad and textbook case of how companies all too often use the strong-arm of government to destroy their competition. The online gambling industry in America spent years and years fighting against the powerful Las ...

Among the great mythologies of recent years, one stands out above the rest, is that the world is in a "great energy transition." Actually, the world IS in a dramatic energy transition. But it isn't the one the Left wants it ...

God save me from my friends—I can take care of my enemies. So President Obama must be muttering today. Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps. He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out ...

“We are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that is plotting to strike us again.” Thus ...

On Good Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered deported to Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews—at Sobibor camp in Poland. Sound familiar? It should. It is a ...

I’ve never been a big fan of Sarah Palin not because I ever thought she was exceptionally bad but because she never struck me as exceptional, period. By 2008, George W. Bush’s Republican Party had wrecked the ...

One hundred thirty five years ago, on Christmas Day, an aged and ailing Ralph Waldo Emerson disembarked at Alexandria, the cradle of Hellenistic Christendom, whence the Holy Family had fled Herod long centuries before. ...

GSTAAD: What I find quite fascinating is how Americans have a blind spot about their own flaws in the area of human rights, and how they feel they have a duty to lecture other countries on the issue. I am, of course, ...

"I remember as a young lieutenant hearing another senator say something like that back in 1972. What would have happened if President Nixon had bowed to the anti-war pressure and just pulled out of Vietnam? Where would we ...

When is a terrorist killer actually a terrorist who has just happened also to kill? When the authorities say so, obviously. The man charged with stabbing to death three young children in Southport was making ricin and ...

“Scientists say they’ve finally found proof of the afterlife,” announced the top story in Mail Online this week, alongside the U.S. election. Heartwarming, reassuring, utterly stupid stories about death—running at ...

In writing my endorsement of Ralph Nader, I passed rather quickly over the question of the right-wing splinter parties, namely the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party, so as not to get bogged down in an extended ...

Recently, U.S. District Judge Barb Crabb ruled that the National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of church and state which, she believed, was mandated by the Establishment Clause of the ...

In a very good column on Pope Benedict’s visit and the clashing theologies of the Pope and the President, Scott Richert made an important series of points related to the earlier patriotism/nationalism debate we were ...