Geoffrey Norman
What is striking about the Der Spiegel scandal is not so much the fraud as the malice that motivated it. We know that some journalists make things up. When the deadline is pressing down on you and you don’t really have…
The majority party in the next session of the House of Representatives will, fair to say, be soft on immigration and hard on guns. Nancy Pelosi is on record, after all, and she doesn’t stray very far, once she has taken…
It was a perfect setup for cynics. If you were a hater of fairy tale endings, then you had to be looking forward to this one like the crocodile lurking at the waterhole when the wildebeests begin to arrive. Bob…
The first bomb fell a little before morning colors and by the time the attack was over, less than three hours later, the U.S. Navy had lost almost all of what it considered its capital ships. These were the battleships,…
In 1953, Charlie Wilson (“Engine Charlie”) was nominated to be Secretary of Defense by President Eisenhower. Wilson was President of General Motors and there was concern that he might be inclined to favor his old company in his decision making….
What to make of Thanksgiving? It isn’t what it used to be but, then, what is? It is not, plainly, PC. And certainly not cool. The story of the Pilgrims and Indians and Norman Rockwell’s depiction of serving the turkey…
The conflict that ended one hundred years ago — on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” – was at first called, “The Great War.” Winston Churchill had, as usual, the right and necessary words: The…
A few years ago, I spent some time with members of the Cherokee Nation, in both North Carolina and Oklahoma. I was researching a story for the National Geographic but I pretty quickly lost any sense of detachment and became —…
Andrew Cuomo recently blurted out that “America has never been great.” The remark generated the predictable reaction and Cuomo quickly backed away, saying that the remark had been “inartful” and that, of course, “America has always been great.” The Governor…
