I agree with Jonah Goldberg: I am proud of and excited by the fact that we have inaugurated the first black president of the United States. He wasn’t my first...
(Here is a sneak peek at an op-ed I submitted. I’ll post an update if it makes it into print.) One day before Barack Obama’s inauguration, a masked gunman shot...
No, not this post. This one: Robert Pape is a brilliant scholar. His work on suicide terrorism is vitally important and extremely insightful. He has long been a sharp critic...
Danny Boyle is famous for setting misery to an upbeat tempo. [Trainspotting](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/), his devastating 1996 take on heroin addiction, comes across as horrifying and yet almost exhilarating, too. In it,...
We had friends staying with us for the inauguration, all of them huge Obama supporters. One of them said to me that Burris’s confirmation as a Senator lends an unfortunate...
George Stephanopoulos tried to engage Obama strategist David Axelrod in some back-of-the-envelope math: STEPHANOPOULOS: The other substantive point that [House Minority Leader John] Boehner makes, he circulated a fact sheet,...
