
Ending the Drug Czar’s Endless War
The words “drug czar” say more about the futility of endless war than all the words written about war. The title is as foreign as […]
The words “drug czar” say more about the futility of endless war than all the words written about war. The title is as foreign as […]
The California State Capitol disproves the idea that great civic architecture attracts great civic leaders, that the strength of our civil religion corresponds to the […]
What if there were a chemical reason for the chain reaction of the summer of 1969? A series of odorless but nonetheless noxious fumes: Ben […]
The flag of 1777, not 1861. The Stars and Stripes, not the Stars and Bars. The flag of Betsy Ross, not Nicola Marschall. The flag […]
A trio of flags: one raised in victory by six Marines atop Mount Suribachi, a second lifted in defiance by three firefighters at Ground Zero, […]
He wrote four sentences, totaling 65 words. He said more, in fewer words, than America’s greatest economizer of words. He wrote about the bravery and […]
In the history of fatuous statements, somewhere between Bill Clinton’s disquisition on what the meaning of the word “is” is and theologians debating how many […]
Thousands of flags pierce the earth, filling hundreds of acres of greenery with staffs of bronze and spears of gold, until every headstone and cross […]
Forget 1984, and focus on 1999: the year “The Matrix” debuted in theaters. Is it possible that Xi Jinping, the current president of China, saw […]
To suggest that products produce themselves, to suggest that the means of production work without workers, to suggest that we can animate the inherently inanimate, […]
About those amber waves of grain, above the fruited plain: If trial lawyers get their way, there will be bread and circuses aplenty but little […]
Imagine two liars committed to the same lie for different reasons. Imagine telling half the world communism is the wave of the future, while the […]
The office of president of the United States is an impeachable offense. The offenders constitute a gallery of rogues and realists, a monument to men […]
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for all freedom-loving people to stop people whose mission in life is a suicide mission […]
Irony did not die in a fireball of Islamic rage. It did not end on the 11th day of the 9th month of a new […]
What site could be more sacred, what sight could be more sorrowful, what monument could be more metaphorical than reality itself, than the burning of […]
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I’ll get back to you. I’ll get back to you, as Lyndon Johnson […]
Leave it to a politician obsessed with sewers to practice gutter politics. Leave it to Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to attack President […]
Greatness is no guarantee of goodness. Nor is goodness a guarantee of godliness, not even when a preacher convinces a president to make good on […]
America’s longest war is the world’s biggest battlefield. The battle is for the life of the world, waged in every city and every hamlet—in every […]