By • Jun 25,2008

Grand New Party

As this is the week we prepare the annual Summer reading issue at The Weekly Standard, and I am the assistant editor for books and arts of that august publication,...

By • Jun 25,2008

But principle is everything!

I jest, of course; principle often bends to reality. And I’m actually really sympathetic to James’s larger point , specifically If some bunch of idiots (this is not a derogatory...

By • Jun 25,2008

One Thing Not to Blame Bush For

Andrew is annoyed: And when you add in state taxes, those earning over $250,000 will have a marginal tax rate around 60 percent. There’s no point in disguising this: Obama...

By • Jun 25,2008

Lay Off International Criminal Law

It might crack. Sonny describes my defense of international law as “full-throated,” but it’s also as full-throated a warning against Europeans who want to put American officials on trial as...

By • Jun 24,2008

Boumediene, cont.

Jack Goldsmith has a pretty solid roundup of the valid conservative critiques on Boumediene over at Slate. The bad: On my own first reading of the case, I was drawn...