Michelle’s Moment
I love political conventions, in part because I remember the olden days, when there was some doubt as to their outcome. Nowadays, of course, party conventions are carefully choreographed events, as is the coverage. I"m ...
I love political conventions, in part because I remember the olden days, when there was some doubt as to their outcome. Nowadays, of course, party conventions are carefully choreographed events, as is the coverage. I"m ...
Having sat on a boat for the last five weeks, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect, and reflect I did. Getting old tends to make one look back, nostaligize for that green light of the dock, and, of course, the great ...
Since the start of 2008, a new international sport has emerged: Yellow Peril-mongering. International politicians, commentators and activists have competed to see who can issue the shrillest and most spine-tingling warning ...
Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close ...
It was the state, which came into existence in the late middle ages and early modern period, that created the political precondition for the spread of individual identity. It did this by enacting legal systems that embraced ...
For many years Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a familiar presence in Hanover, New Hampshire. He had been arrested in 1945 and sentenced to eight years in prison after criticizing Stalin in a letter he wrote from the front where he ...
Barack Obama just had the worst week since his beloved pastor, Jeremiah Wright, decided to expatiate on black liberation theology at the National Press Club. Coming off his royal progress through the Near and Middle East, ...
After Jesus Christ, Natan Sharansky is George Bush's favorite philosopher. In early 2005, around the time of his second inaugural, the president praised Sharansky"ex-prisoner of the Soviet Gulag, former Israeli cabinet ...
The latest issue of The American Conservative (July 14) includes a provocative symposium on whether World War II should be considered "the good war" and, no less significant, whether Winston Churchill deserves the ...
If "Gimme That Old Time Religion" isn"t Barack Obama's campaign song yet, it should be. After starting July by endorsing an Obamized version of George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, St. Barack then appeared ...
“We have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in,” says Barack Obama of the U.S. war in Iraq. Wise counsel. But is Barack taking his own advice? For he pledges to shift two U.S. combat ...
It is an age-old question: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? The force in question is the farming community of Argentina, once among the agricultural powerhouses of the world, and the object is ...
As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the Yalu come ...
We may be seeing the resurgence of what was thought to be an endangered species: the Southern white conservative Democrat. Travis Childers, a Democrat who won a congressional seat in a havily Republican district, is just one ...