On the Commentary blog, our good friend James Kirchick warns of race baiting at the upcoming UN-sponsored "Durban II" conference. He also presents us with a broader critique of the tendency of gatherings dedicated ...
”So incompetent as to be almost laughable”—That’s how former Scotland Yard investigator John O’Connor characterized the incredibly botched London bombings, in which 5 hapless ...
Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed? No, it is not fair. Yet, ...
Hillary Clinton’s unsatisfactory explanation why she voted for Wolfowitz’s War is worth revisiting. “Operation Iraqi Freedom” must be an embarrassment to her and to all the other establishment ...
I apologize for that " you know how I hate to give offense. It's just that the news focus this week has been on topics of race and ...
What follows are a few brief responses to the often informative comments generated by my comments on the "Nazi" Stauffenberg. Never would I deny that the opponents of the Nazi regime were limited to the July 20 ...
In his "endorsement" of John McCain this afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma promised the CPAC crowd that McCain "does not have a secret plan to grant amnesty." He added that McCain-Finegold was a very ...
Two days ago my frenzied attempt to “make sense of the American Right” came out as a book with Palgrave-Macmillan. My readers are urged to get hold of this slim volume, which Peter Brimelow describes as a ...
It was the winter of conservative discontent. Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936. Democrats held 295 House seats, ...
Will Western civilization survive the disappearance of Westerners? That’s what the secularized elites of the EU and the US are betting, and it’s the unacknowledged premise of the latest thick volume of Whig ...
The new majority in Congress said it was different from the old majority and that multi-million dollar bridges to nowhere and money for frivolous projects would be a thing of the past. This is what they said and are on ...
I"ve looked on with curiosity at the so-called "Gravelanche," the reaction among libertarians to Mike Gravel's quest for the Libertarian Party's nomination. That old Mike would attempt such a thing is not ...
My piece in this morning’s edition of Taki’s Top Drawer on the premature demise of the Ron Paul campaign has already made waves, as I can see in the comments that are already accumulating. It was written before ...
GSTAAD—The row over Indonesian “hobbits” has split this beautiful alpine village in half. Alas, it began when I wrote something about the Olden, one of Gstaad’s oldest and most beautiful inns and its owner ...
Since Justin showed me the courtesy of responding to my objections to his statements about Hillary-voters in West Virginia, I am herewith returning the favor. Because of the brevity of my blog retort to his commentary, it ...
This past fall, I held an informal poll of the students at the first-rate liberal arts college where I’m privileged to teach, asking them to choose between two presidential candidates: John Calvin or Niccolo ...
Once again I feel impelled to respond to my critics, and particularly to those who criticize me as a "Zionist," and as someone who worships at the altar of America the "superpower," and endorses ...
Most of you probably know first-hand how outrageously biased Faux News has been towards the Ron Paul campaign. Beyond excluding him from one of the debates"but including Giuliani, who consistently runs behind ...
Listening to the talking heads on FOX at 6:45 PM on Wednesday night, I was struck by a conversation among Mort Kondracke, Bill Kristol and Mara Liasson, concerning a beau geste that had been carried out in the Senate ...
In the bizarre world where Hugh Hewitt and Mitt Romney reside, successfully executing an early-state strategy matters only when your main opposition is supposed to be someone pursuing a delayed, “national” ...
John Ross, in his labyrinthine commentary on Ron Paul and his neo-hippy (or is it neo-Bolshevik followers?), introduces himself as a "Kirkian" and a "Burkean," and in view of this stated pedigree, I"m ...
Although I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Jonah praised my scholarship on NRO (Thursday, January 24, http:/liberalism.nationalreview. com/post/?) and that he considers me a paleo "who knows a lot about a ...
The fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was marked by a deluge of retrospective commentary, much of it focused on the past: how we got into this conflict and how it has been conducted. Fine, it is always ...
In fact only conservatives hate; the left is a hate-free ...
