Christopher Orlet

Last weekend’s botched air strikes in Pakistan actually turned out pretty well for a CIA operation. Sure the CIA failed…

H. L. Mencken liked to say that he supported free speech “up to and including the utmost limits of the…

Judging from last week’s jubilant, nearly identical headlines the press was having a picnic over the recent Bolivian elections: “Latin…

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture By Ariel Levy (Free Press, 224 Pages, $25) Once men…

President Bush’s approval ratings got a most welcome boost this week as the administration launched an all-out information offensive —…

Last week jazz legend David Warren Brubeck turned 85. One wonders how many music lovers realized Brubeck was still alive,…

The editor was only doing what journalists in free societies take for granted: raising vital issues and encouraging debate. Because…

The pessimistic philosopher E.M. Cioran once described the Balkans as having a “taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a…

A popularity contest for public intellectuals seems about as silly as a beauty contest for dogs. Still both are done….

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a charming way of describing the South American dictators his administration propped up in the 1930s…