Castelvetro di Modena, Italy On May 14th a star failed to come out. Tom Wolfe passed away that day. With…
Washington I once did a weekly column for the Washington Post. It appeared on Mondays, and was picked up in…
Washington There is a whiff of the absurd about former Secretary of State Jean-François Kerry’s recent “aggressive yet stealthy mission”…
Washington Milton Friedman was not only a brilliant economist — a Nobel Laureate in fact — but he was a…
Washington Has it been noted that the country’s political disagreements are becoming increasingly violent? About fifteen years ago “the angry…
William Casey was my lawyer. One day I came into my office and found a large man sitting on my desk. I greeted him amiably, and he greeted me amiably. Yet, he was still siting on my desk. At some point in our meeting we settled into a more conventional seating arrangement, and Bill began to tell me about the world as he analyzed it at the time, the late 1970s. I then made two decisions. If Bill agreed to be my lawyer I could take on anyone. What is more, he knew prodigious amounts about the world. He had brought charts and maps. He would be my foreign policy advisor.
Court historian James MacGregor Burns assesses the variegated persona of the Liberal savior, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and finds him surprisingly…
Washington The markets are on edge. Yet, then again, inflation is low, employment is high — in the case of…
Washington There have been some very auspicious developments in human evolutionary studies that ought to allow us a welcome respite…
