Reflections on Terrorism: Idiots in Paradise
Every time some Muslim bombs, beheads, shoots, runs over, and otherwise terrorizes the likes of us in New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Boston, Barcelona, San […]
Reflections on Terrorism: What Causes? Whose Causes?
Our national discourse has blinded itself to the fact that, although the world is full of terrorists, nearly all act on behalf of causes irrelevant […]
Reflections on Terrorism: Iran and Bin Laden
So little practical consequence does the relationship between the Iranian government and al-Qaeda have that, had not the recently released “Bin Laden papers” revealed it, […]
Reflections on Terrorism, Dumb and Smart
Peggy Noonan’s observation in the Wall Street Journal that the most recent jihadist mass murderer is “an idiot”—unlike the men who perpetrated 9/11, but like […]
Migration: The Straw That’s Breaking Europe’s Back
The issue of immigration has become the occasion for deciding the most practical and perennial of issues: who rules? Americans know that Europe’s un-sustainable socio-economic […]
Establishment GOP Puts Cronies over Country on Missile Defense
As North Korea demonstrates America’s vulnerability to ballistic missiles, and as President Trump pledges “many billions of dollars” for “the anti-missile,” establishment Republicans are poised […]
Can the U.S Military Hold the Line in the Gathering Political Storm?
Defense Secretary James Mattis’s words last month to U.S troops in the Middle East came from his patriotic heart: “And you just hold the line, […]
The 2016 Election is Not Reversible
Today, the bipartisan ruling class, which the electorate was trying to shed by supporting anti-establishment candidates of both parties in 2016, feels as if it […]
Victory: What It Will Take to Win
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in the Fall 2001 edition of the Claremont Review of Books. The editors are grateful for permission from […]
If This is Strategy . . .
Strategy is neither more nor less than a map for getting from here to there—a reasonable plan for using what you have to accomplish what […]
Navy’s Report on Fitzgerald Collision Is Evidence Of Corruption
Two months after the USS Fitzgerald’s June 18 collision with a freighter in the Sea Of Japan, the Navy announced that the ship’s commanding officer, […]
Should Presidents Follow Expert Military Advice?
The question arises because of widespread allegations that President Donald Trump should be constrained, somehow, to bend his foreign and defense policy to the advice […]
Restoring the Republic Means Reimposing ‘Regular Order’
The Republican congressional leadership’s failure to repeal Obamacare has led to suggestions that, perhaps, they should have approached their task through “regular order.” Since Congress […]
Cooling Our Overheated Politics
As the words and images by which we live our public and private lives coarsen and become more violent, as we identify in ways antagonistic […]
Progression—or Degeneracy? Part Three
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series. Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution echoes forward to our time by highlighting the […]
Progression—or Degeneracy? Part Two
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series. If, as I have posited in the first of these essays, “whether the men of […]
Progression—or Degeneracy? Part One
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series. The American regime that resulted from the American Revolution differs from today’s in size, scope, […]
Robert Mueller Needs to Answer Some Crucial Questions—If Only Republicans Would Ask Them
Editor’s Note: The following is a memo crafted by the author as it ought to be written to Special Counsel, Robert Mueller from the two […]
Punishing The Real Russia Crime: Leaking
The appointment of a special counsel, as well as the Congressional proceedings to uncover and punish such associates of Donald Trump as may have colluded […]
Russia: What Is It To Us?
The current hubbub about Russian interference in the U.S. political process, subsequent to anonymous whispers to the New York Times and Washington Post by U.S. […]