19th-century policy for the 21st century
Good, if somewhat standard, article by Fareed Zakaria on why the slight improvement in Bush's foreign policy hasn't earned the U.S. ...
Maybe conservatives don't want civil war after all...
For a while, it had seemed to me that the American conservative movement would rather rupture the country - violently, if need be - to preve...
Conservatives and Islamists, together again for the first time
Amazingly good article by Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic. It's long, but I recommend reading the whole thing. The article is about...
Why don't more people call themselves liberals?
North Korea, our new friend
Here's a very interesting story in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. The first paragraph says it all: North Korea's Vice For...
Barney Frank - American Hero
He's not getting a lot of news, but Congressman Barney Frank (D - MA) is quietly changing America. Frank is sponsoring a bill to allow ...
Another good China post from Setser
Brad Setser has another great post about China . It's often hard to unravel the complicated language of international trade, and underst...
Spring Interlude
I'm on "spring" break for a week, basking on the hot sunny beaches of New York City... Never having lived in a place with snow...
Why Bush is a bigger threat than the Islamists
Jonah Goldberg had this to say in a recent column on National Review Online: Only a handful of people on the Left — and far too few liberal...
An argument for the American way of life
Why, after everything that's happened here, I could never even for a moment hate my country.
William Kristol: Public Enemy #1
And now, for a little bit of perfectly justified defamation. In the past two weeks, as the House and Senate wrangle over resolutions condem...
Why the Palestinian Civil War is good for Palestine
The fact that Palestinians are now killing Palestinians should come as no surprise. This is not because of the innate character of Palestin...
