Celebrating John Glenn&...

John Wilford, NY Times In the winter of 1962, the nation needed a hero.Americans had yet to recover from the Soviet Union’s launching of the first spacecraft, Sputnik, in October 1957 — a rude jolt to our confidence as world leaders in all things technological. The...

Nuclear Disarmament, No...

Mark Davis, Weekly Standard The Obama administration states in its just released defense guidance paper that perhaps America’s nuclear “deterrence goals can be achieved with a smaller nuclear force.”What appears to be a public musing is, in fact, already...

The President’s R...

Michael Lind, Salon While the media has focused on the Republican presidential primaries, offstage the greatest revolution in American foreign policy in a generation has occurred, with little discussion or debate surrounding its announcement last week by President Obama.The relative lack...

BP Makes Amends...

Joe Nocera, New York Times Today, I’m going to say some nice things about BP and some not so nice things about the lawyers who are suing BP. Please don’t spill your coffee. Joe Nocera As horrific as the Deepwater Horizon accident was in April 2010 — killing...

The Drop in Crime: Keep...

Charles Murray, The American I got into a good-natured argument with my friend Pete Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center over lunch last week about the importance of incarceration in explaining the gratifying drop in crime since the 1990s. Pete cited some credible technical...

Is the World Safer With...

Mikhail Gorbachev, The Nation Since the breakup of the Soviet Union twenty years ago, Western commentators have often celebrated it as though what disappeared from the world arena in December 1991 was the old Soviet Union, the USSR of Stalin and Brezhnev, rather than the reforming Soviet...

Frank Rich and the Para...

James Piereson, RealClearPolitics It has now been 48 years since President John F. Kennedy was cut down on the streets of Dallas by rifle shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, a self-described Marxist, recent defector to the Soviet Union, and ardent admirer of Fidel Castro. The evidence...

Back to Worrying About ...

Tom Petruno, Los Angeles Times Read more:  Back to Worrying About the...

The President’s B...

Glenn Greenwald, Salon (updated below) This is one of the most impressive and commendable things Obama has done since being inaugurated: President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White...

Obama is Entirely a Cre...

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Excerpt from:  Obama is Entirely a Creature of the...