War: Still a Racket

Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and "€œfinish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan."€ More than two years after he took the oath ...

Obama Blows up the Bridge

“Rather than building bridges, he’s poisoning wells,” said Rep. Paul Ryan, after listening to Barack Obama’s scathing attack on his deficit reduction plan ...

Valentina Tereshkova

The End of Manned Space Flight

Somewhere in the London Daily Mirror's billionfold archives is a photograph taken in February 1964 and published in that estimable newspaper of a small but enthusiastic crowd of ...

Fuck the Public Sector

If one were to"€”hypothetically"€”shoot every other public-sector worker in the back of the head, I believe you would not notice a single blip, hiccup, or ripple in the ...

The Tyrant and the Rebels

Once there was a ruler who held his vast land together with an iron fist. For decades the people in one of his disparate regions had pursued peaceful methods to codify their way ...

Ability: The Key to Social Mobility

The British government is planning to nationalize social mobility as part of something involving "€œfairness"€ and government programs. This is sinister because "€œsocial ...

Banksy

Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza

It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan's puffed-up armies learned that lesson in June 1967, when six days of combat forced them to throw ...

The Middle East for Dummies

Let's play the "€œWhat If?"€ game for a minute. What if I had written this column in October 2002 and some eagle-eyed aide to George W. Bush had noticed it and shown it to ...

Another Failed “€œConservative Success Story”€

According to Joel Klein's March 21 Newsweek column, "€œconservatives"€ went ballistic at their annual CPAC meeting in Washington because Obama had dared to question the holy ...

War is Hell, But It’s Also War

The US has another public-relations nightmare on its hands in Afghanistan. One would think a war lasting over a decade with no plausible end in sight would be enough of a PR ...

The Princess of Miami

Get yer hankies out. Here is the tale of little Emily Ruiz, four years old, the victim, according to her attorney, of “a tragic injustice.” Little Emily is the ...

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and a bloodstained dictator who ...

Gauche Contre Droite: The Lévy-Houellebecq Letters

Last week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been better in the past. This week we will nostalgically infer that they might be better elsewhere. Where? ...

Who Are We Fighting For?

On March 20, Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a congregation of 30 at his Dove World Outreach Center church in Gainesville, Fla., conducted a mock trial of the Quran “for ...

Mutassim Gaddafi and Hillary Clinton

News to Make One Vomit

This is the most outrageous proposal since Nero named his horse a senator. The suggestion that two of Gaddafi’s sons may inherit his mantle and a deal struck with the ...

Count Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich

In Praise of Reactionaries

Robert Conquest"€”celebrated both as a poet and a historian of Soviet Russia"€”was at one point lecturing throughout the US. As the story is told, people would come up ...


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