Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its AftermathEdited by George H. Nash (Hoover Institution Press, 920 pages, $49.95) Within the past two weeks, an astonishing new book has been published. Freedom Betrayed, written by…
A week doesn’t go by without the announcement of new planets. “Week Brings Hail of Planets” was just the most recent report. It capped a week of “new findings about worlds beyond our own solar system,” according to the Wall…
I happened to be in England shortly before the riots, which erupted in copycat fashion all over the country. No one saw them coming. There have been many references to the “feral underclass,” a name for creatures formerly tamed but…
The budget drama that has filled headlines for weeks is an important story, yet its outcome is still uncertain. Much is at stake: Is the U.S. to be kept on a permanently higher government spending path, which is what President…
The raising of the debt ceiling was a remarkable and unusually fraught moment in Washington. I was relieved when it was over, because it could have turned out so badly. But in the end it was the liberals who were…
A year ago, my mother, then nearly 98, went into an old folks’ home in England. One of the last things she told me was that she believed her family background was partly Jewish. Her grandmother’s maiden name was Dow,…
Time recently published a cover story, “Is Hell Dead?” about a “rogue pastor” called Rob Bell in Michigan. We don’t know for sure that anyone is in hell, he argues. Maybe, but fantasizing free heaven passes for all doesn’t make…
Waiting for “Superman” –– a documentary about failing government schools — was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also produced An Inconvenient Truth (promoting Al Gore’s “global warming” scare). “Superman” has won lots of awards and Jonathan Alter, a man of…
Recently the British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech in which he said that multiculturalism isn’t working. French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel said much the same thing. A good deal has already been written about Cameron’s…
The war in Afghanistan, called Operation Enduring Freedom, has proved to be enduring indeed. Now in its 10th year, it could drag on a lot longer. In November’s congressional elections it was hardly an issue. But if we are still…