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- Obama's Empty Pragmatism - February 11, 2009
- The initial period of the Obama administration, however, has provided hints of a long-term problem -- not one of incompetence, but of emptiness. Obama partisans...
- The Real Scandal of Religion - February 9, 2009
- In Hitler's Germany, Christians responded to mass murder with general acquiescence and only isolated defiance. Protestants earned the most shame. In the Evangelical...
- The Appeal of Innocence - February 4, 2009
- Most of this is trivial rather than disturbing. (OK, I admit to watching "American Idol" -- which David Archuleta, by the way, should have won last season.) But if...
- The Fallacy of the Eventual Answer - January 30, 2009
- "This hasn't solved the problem," Gen. Giora Eiland, a former Israeli national security adviser, told me. "But it has introduced a completely different cost...
- Weasels vs. AIDS Relief - January 28, 2009
- During Obama's transition, Dr. Mark Dybul was initially asked to stay on as the coordinator of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for several...
- Two Faces of Obamamania - January 23, 2009
- But an aggrieved sense of victimhood is not attractive from any political perspective. And so, in honor of the "era of responsibility," I put aside such childish...
- Obama: Conservative Revolutionary - January 21, 2009
- To be sure, Obama has a presence and confidence that completely filled America's main rhetorical stage -- extraordinary for a man who just six years ago was giving...
- Words for This Journey - January 16, 2009
- In a few days, President Barack Obama's voice will mingle with those ghostly sounds, and be added to others. Marian Anderson singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee,"...
- Apostle of Life - January 14, 2009
- In a saner, more serious time, Father Richard John Neuhaus would have been a broadly familiar name. He was a civil rights organizer, a friend and associate of the...
- Justice for a Mass Murderer - January 9, 2009
- For years, Uganda planned a complex military operation against the LRA in Congo. It would start with bombing runs by MiG fighters, then a helicopter assault, then the...
- The Risks in Obama's Ambitions - January 7, 2009
- I am not referring to his stimulus plan, which tends toward the limited and conventional. Obama's tax cuts are designed to improve household cash flow. But it is...
- Israel's Proportionate Response - January 2, 2009
- Israel's immediate goal is simple: to stop missile barrages by Hamas on southern Israel. But it is not a coincidence that this action was taken by the primary...
- Support Obama Will Need - December 31, 2008
- So far, Obama is attempting to be a unifying national figure -- in spite of his most insufferable supporters. "Indeed," explains Joe Klein of Time magazine, "as the...
- Moral Surrender to Pyongyang - December 19, 2008
- In the case of North Korea, however, Hill has operated with the full support of President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The argument was...
- The Strength of Compassionate Conservatism - December 17, 2008
- O'Sullivan's main arguments come down to these: The phrase compassionate conservatism is redundant, because "relieving poverty and improving the condition of the...
- Obama Country - December 12, 2008
- Expectations for the president-elect are not just high in America. And eastern Congo will be an early foreign policy test for the administration -- its suffering...
- Suffering Hopes in Congo - December 10, 2008
- Less than a mile from the front, a left turn brings you into the Kibati I camp -- more than 6,000 men, women and children displaced by nearby fighting. The camps...
- Preventing the Triumph of Violence - December 5, 2008
- People naturally tend to mentally bury such risk. Wrote T.S. Eliot: "It is hard for those who live near a Police Station / To believe in the triumph of violence." ...
- The Return of Hope - December 3, 2008
- It is tempting for conservatives to crow -- or liberals to lament -- that Barack Obama's victory has somehow produced John McCain's administration. But this...
- Iraq's Costly Success - November 21, 2008
- The withdrawal deadlines contained in the SOFA seem like concessions from the Bush administration -- and they are. Officials are careful to point out that the June...
- Should GM Be Allowed to Fail? - November 19, 2008
- Few companies more deserve failure. General Motors overproduces cars that few people want to buy, propping up demand with financial incentives that result in...
- Where the Mines Are - November 14, 2008
- So far, President-elect Barack Obama seems to be preparing for office with characteristic care and seriousness. Future Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is partisan and...
- Where Obama Can Be Bold - November 12, 2008
- But the burden of a broad victory is holding together a broad coalition, including many moderates who could be easily alienated by early missteps. Obama's election was...
- The Decency of George W. Bush - November 7, 2008
- The result? A Sunni tribal revolt against their al-Qaeda oppressors, an effective campaign against Shiite militias in Baghdad and Basra, and the flight of jihadists...
- Hail to the Chief - November 5, 2008
- In the past few decades, the magic of legitimacy has seemed to fade. Opponents of President Bill Clinton turned their disagreements (and Clinton's human failures) into...
- Misreading the Verdict - October 31, 2008
- The role of public authority in the regulation of markets is a matter of debate. The moral achievement of capitalism is not. It is the system of economic...
- The Strange World of the Stump Speech - October 29, 2008
- In style, the contrast is sharp. McCain is a rhetorical master -- for those who consider the Gerald Ford era as the golden age of Republican speechmaking. McCain is...
- Casualty of the Surge - October 24, 2008
- McCain staked his presidential prospects on a major change in Iraq policy: more troops implementing the Petraeus counterinsurgency strategy (an approach eventually,...
- The Irony of Obama - October 22, 2008
- It is undeniable that Obama's record in the Illinois Legislature was conventionally liberal on crime and spending, and radical on abortion. During his brief U.S....
- The Man Who Stayed - October 17, 2008
- When interviewed, Petraeus does not seem like a man under burdens that would make Atlas sweat. His manner is precise and practiced. He hands out charts and graphs...
- Ambushed by History - October 15, 2008
- John McCain has reached this stage of criticism among conservatives. Some attack him for "frenetic improvisation," while others urge him to frenetically improvise. His...
- The President Who Will Deal With Iran - October 10, 2008
- Days earlier, at an event at the Nixon Center here, the former chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, David Kay, delivered a bleak assessment of Iranian...
- Health Insurance For All - October 8, 2008
- McCain has proposed to replace the current government health care subsidy for employers with a tax credit that would help all individuals and families purchase...
- The Leader Who Stood The Tallest - October 3, 2008
- But in spite of his tendency to fling charges and symbolism, McCain ended up playing a responsible (though not decisive) role in bailout negotiations. White House...
- Too Small for a Big Crisis - October 1, 2008
- Seldom has America's governing elite been more united in response to a national challenge. The president, the secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the...
- The Death of Policy - September 24, 2008
- But it is President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, by proposing the massive government purchase of bad debt, who have assumed the mantle of Franklin D....
- Name That Doctrine - September 19, 2008
- But that is not quite true. The Bush doctrine is not the Da Vinci code. It developed over time, but it developed according to the intentions of a single man. The...
- Obama's Panic - September 17, 2008
- Obama's first major decision was his running mate. He could have reinforced a message of change and moderation with a Democratic governor who wins in a Republican...
- Faith-Based Condescension - September 12, 2008
- And, of course, Palin is portrayed as a "theocrat" -- a Muslim fundamentalist in lipstick. She has a "right to her religious beliefs" in precisely the same sense...
- The Importance of Trig Being - September 10, 2008
- It was not always this way. When John F. Kennedy's younger sister Rosemary was born mentally disabled in 1918, it was treated as a family secret. For decades Rosemary...