I"ve been reluctant to write about Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza this past two weeks for the simple reason that the ordeal has struck me as, to borrow a phrase ...
Under the general topic of malevolence, wickedness, and evil, a vocabulary exists for self-imposed harm, for example, self-mutilation or self-abuse. But such words always denote ...
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson asked a penetrating question: What would have happened had Britain remained neutral during World War I? Agree with his answer"history would ...
People say that the best cure for a hangover is a hair of the dog that bit you. The people who say that are typically alcoholics. They"re using the logic of an addict, whose ...
Be prepared for a homosexual parody of Christmas when you take a stroll through Amsterdam these days. The Dutch city, the self-declared "Gay capital of the world," is ...
Another NATO conference, another example of geopolitical futility. At the alliance's recent ministerial meeting, the Europeans rebuffed Washington's push for speedy membership for ...
The great American journalist H.L. Mencken made of his whole career a kind of one-man "revolt against the masses" kamikaze mission. In the Menckenian imagination, the ...
The majority of the American people oppose bailing out the Bit Three automakers at a clip of 61 to 36, and it was thus perfectly sensible for Senate Republicans to reject the $14 ...
Why is this recession different, and likely much worse, from all the recessions of the past? Imagine a Paleolithic village which has no children. When all the adults grow too old ...
On the evenings of October 10 and 11, 1999, the A&E cable network broadcast a list of "The 100 Most Influential People of the Past 1000 Years," selected by a "Blue ...
For years I"ve belabored acquaintances with the observation by stating that the paleoconservatives who had spent their lives butting their heads against the American ...
The following address was given to the H.L. Mencken Club’s Annual Meeting; November 21-23, 2008 My study at home in Long Island has bookshelves on all four walls. When I ...
When the Soviet Union's ramshackle empire imploded, and what Louis Bromfield called the "worldwide psychopathic cult" of Communism fell into an embarrassed quietude, it ...
Can a different kind of conservative movement be built? Maybe. Pat Buchanan is one leader on the Right who clearly stands for a foreign policy, economics, and cultural vision very ...
The tradition of thought with which George Kennan (1904-2005) is most often identified is that of political realism. That tradition appears to most Americans to be rather foreign, ...
Even before Obama won a resounding victory over McCain and Democratic majorities expanded significantly in Congress, declarations that conservatism was finished had been pouring ...
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