Putin Beyond the Propaganda
The United States" recognition of Kosovo has been accompanied by some familiar attacks on Vladimir Putin. According to his critics, the Russian president seeks the Finlandization of Europe and is a grave threat to ...
The United States" recognition of Kosovo has been accompanied by some familiar attacks on Vladimir Putin. According to his critics, the Russian president seeks the Finlandization of Europe and is a grave threat to ...
Taking a break from current events (1918"), I’d like to recommend a fascinating book that re-imagines economics. Self-consciously bold, the book rejects the utilitarian view of man implicit in ...
I remember when I was living in Flambertin des Creppieres, a small hamlet west of Paris with an admittedly extremely pretentious name, and listening to two butchers arguing about Camus. They both had obviously read him, ...
So cheer up! Austin's essay on the distinction between "tragic" and "comic" libertarianism was sparked, I gather, from some email conversations between the two of us in which I"ve been waxing tragic ...
So farewell, then, to probably the best Wimbledon fortnight ever, certainly the sunniest that I can remember. Andy Roddick now joins Gottfried von Cramm and Ken Rosewall as a three-times-losing finalist, coming within a ...
10 Picks for the Week Marriage of Figaro, Lisbon, April 24 - May 8 Mozart's great comedy opens at El Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. The magnificent 18th century theater is in the historic Chiado district. If ...
On Jan. 28, Christopher Hitchens went through the litany of Bill and Hillary's long history of "race baiting" in Slate. The extent of Hitchens's charges were that: "¢ Clinton occasionally played golf at a ...
Greece is a country that thrives on rumor. Hearsay has been a part of the Greek DNA since time immemorial. Even Plato remarked on it. Demagogues used rumor and gossip to silence their opponents, demagogism being a Greek ...
If Russell Kirk is guilty of reading too much of European conservatism into the American founding, Allan Wolfe goes even farther in the other direction, by assuming that the American Constitution from the beginning prepared ...
We should have “an honest debate” on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, “not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions.” Among the “phony ...
The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their mausoleums. Mausolea, whatever ...
Geert Wilders" courage, charisma, strength of character and intelligence are not in question"and he is obviously right to point out the danger posed by the recrudescence of Europe's historic enemy. But brave though ...
When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court—in Barack Obama’s America. Like Obama, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action, she thinks “Latina women,” ...
Geert Wilders is in the US at the moment and will be showing his film “Fitna” in Congress tomorrow, Thursday. US Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is hosting a film screening at the Capitol building on Thursday for Geert ...
”Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity,” ran the headline in the Washington Post. The impression left was that some sorehead was griping because black and Hispanic kids were finally being ...
In this week's New Yorker Philip Gourevitch takes a shot at Robert Mugabe, one of the leading psychopathic monsters among the rest of the crooks and murderers who lead the Dark Continent. He writes that the South African ...
Last week’s clash between Dr. James Dobson and Barack Obama is but the latest skirmish in a war that dates back to the time of Christ. At issue: What is Christian truth? Does the true Christian put social peace ahead of ...
My next to the last posting, which was an obituary on William F. Buckley, occasioned so many responses that I must disappoint those who thought I would never again say anything about my deceased subject. Contrary to the ...
It is that time of year when we depart for summer vacation. We head for the woods and mountains. Unless we planned to visit the Gulf, we head for the beach. Oh, what the hell. Even if we planned to visit the Gulf, let us ...
A year after taking power, in June 1934, Adolf Hitler made his first visit abroad—to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice. Babbling on incessantly about Mein Kampf and the Negroid strain in Mediterranean peoples, ...
Bill Moyers has done it again. To observe some of my fellow countrymen acting like imbeciles is disturbing. I suppose one should be inured to it by now. Still, it is deplorable. If you saw the program, you know what I am ...
NEW YORK—The war on terror, as the most inarticulate man ever to inhabit the White House calls it, has now lasted longer than World War II. And take it from Taki, it’s not going away, not in my lifetime, that’s ...
“I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem.” Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically ...
Since we last addressed the topic, Irving “Scooter” Libby was assigned a federal prison number. It certainly looked like he was headed for a Federal correctional facility, all because he refused to tell the ...
