Occupation: Columnist Birth: March 13, 1950
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow..
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] F….
Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction….
There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two form….
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are alr….
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me..
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine..
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal const….
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible..
The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Demo….
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties..
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself..
In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It….
I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dy….
If Russia were to do something that it could do, it looks like it might even be preparing to do, to invade Ukraine and essentially to dismember it, t….
The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not j….
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in ….
Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left..
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent..
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality..
[I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such ….