William Murchison

A number of maxims surround the practice of war. The main maxim runs to this effect: When you get attacked,…

It’s been kind of fun, I tell you: a Florida Democratic congressman, one Alcee Hastings, calls Texas a “crazy state.”…

Back in the ’90s I bantered once or twice with Karl Rove. It had to do with the Bush boys,…

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also…

A grand misconception is embedding itself in the public brain: To wit, the Supreme Court soon will clue us in…

“The West,” as we pleasantly call the tatty, post-Cold War remnants of Western civilization, got off its numb if still-hifalutin…

Politicians do politics because they can’t help it. It’s what they do: their whole reason for existence. A public man…

Bethlehem. Ah. Yes. There we were as a matter of fact, and not many weeks ago, either. Also at Nazareth….

Among the journalistic takeaways from the late Congress’s death frenzies is the equivocal plight of the two parties — the…

Yeah, yeah, I’m I’m olllllld. I know and confess it. I remember the Kennedy assassination. I remember when all the…