Politics
Who are the patriots?
A headline writer for The Nation asserts the patriotism of Gore Vidal, a man who has deliberately and ostentatiously lived outside his patria for decades.
Politics
Politics
Federal outlays in the late 1990s
Patrick Ruffini's blog is one of the more thought-provoking political blogs out there. I often disagree with Patrick, but his writing demonstrates a literacy and his research a numeracy that I appreciate and learn from, and I often forward his entries to friends. I was surprised, then, to
History
Chirac's foreign policy
At first glance, it is puzzling that Jacques Chirac, the major French conservative of our time, led the effort (and went to such an extreme) to oppose the American government's decision to occupy Iraq. But as the founder of the Rassemblement Pour la République, Chirac is, above all,
History
The future of Iraq
In my heart, I hope that today's celebration in Baghdad is justified by future events, and that Iraqis will soon enjoy a stable government that presides peacefully over a free people. In my mind, I doubt as Edmund Burke did: [...] I cannot stand forward and give praise or