The Stopped Clock

Anne Applebaum argues that the President could create a foreign policy "legacy" by reinventing NATO. Were he to try to follow her...

Part of how you get commentary published, it seems, is coming at issues from an angle that at least some of your audience hasn't seen b...

Before reading Jackson Diehl's latest editorial, I had come to two basic opinions in relation to the current set of accusations against...

When I read Michael Gerson complain that the United States hasn't done enough in Syria, I think he's being genuine. My problem wit...

Eliot Cohen whines in the Washington Post , Abraham Lincoln hated war as much as Barack Obama does. He saw so much more of it firsthand, lo...

The New York Times has run some viewpoints on the idea of replacing part of a conventional legal education (three years of law school) with...

I'm a bit surprised, looking back, that I haven't written more about Stephen Moore. There's this piece , but given how often I...

Michelle Bachmann has walked back from her usual craziness, and is reporting that the government plans to subject undocumented minor childr...

Robert Samuelson states some facts about think tanks that, for some reason, aren't often voiced by elite columnists: Most think tanks ...

Watching Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, depicting the scheming Frank Underwood , I can't help but wonder... how is it that the lead ch...

Ross Douthat tells us about the night he had to walk home from baseball practice, When I was about 9 years old, I graduated to a Little Lea...

The other day, Reihan Salam was on Real Time, but didn't manage to air all of his anti-Obamacare tropes before the host switched to a d...

...It's because your work actually is bad. I haven't paid any particular attention to The Independent's analysis of the Israe...

I learned something interesting from an executive from a large health care organization, the other day. She receives 200-300 job applicatio...

Presidents play golf.... Kennedy , Johnson , Nixon , Ford , Carter (although after his presidency), Reagan , Bush , Clinton , Bush II , Ob...

A consistent argument made by critics of the Obama Administration is that the Administration should have somehow identified, trained and ar...

One of the comments I frequently hear is that the Obama Administration should somehow have convinced the Maliki government to enter into a ...