High speed rail is great, except when it isn’t
By • Aug 31,2009

Matt Labash on Marion Barry

America’s greatest living treasure, a/k/a Matt Labash, has a 9,500 word profile on Marion Barry this week. He had access to the Mayor For Life for several days; he went...

By • Aug 31,2009

Misguided Realpolitik

This is the second in a series of four articles trying to come to terms with Obama’s foreign policy. Click here to read Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4.....

By • Aug 29,2009

Japan set for historic elections

Yukio Hatoyama, expected to be Japan’s next prime minister, published a strange anti-American polemic in the NY Times earlier this week. Michael Goldfarb is ticked off. Dov Zakheim says its...

By • Aug 29,2009

Why are Jews liberals?

That is the title of Norman Podhoretz’s new book. It won’t be out until September 8th, but the current issue of Commentary presents a symposium on the book, with contributions...