Maybe I missed something in ghostwriting class, but I always thought the ghostwriter’s job was to remain as ghostly as possible. The book, I thought, should be the author’s — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as…
I used to love reading George Will. In the Days of Clinton and Obama, Will was solidly conservative. His writing remains brilliant, witty, erudite. He knows a woman does not wear white after Labor Day and that a fish fork…
Of all the epithets my critics have called me during my nine years as president of Georgia and six years in Ukrainian politics, my favorite is “troublemaker.” For this honorific, I have to thank Brian McNicoll, whose September 14 article…
Mikheil Saakashvili says if Georgia doesn’t overthrow its pro-Russia government in 100 days, the country no longer will exist. He says it is in the interest of Ukraine that the “pro-Russian government of Georgia” be removed and that the world…
In law school we learned about the great legal minds and their fields of unique genius: Corbin on Contracts, Prosser on Torts, Collier on Bankruptcy, and (in California) Witkin on Everything Else. In recent days, we are being treated to…
Writing in my dad for president started out as a barbed joke. Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain seemed like acceptable candidates. Obama was a man of extreme politics and moderate temperament. McCain was a man with an extreme temper…
We have had a series of American presidents who never should have been elected but who had amazing luck. We also have had our share of good ones of excellence who simply would not subject themselves to what this democracy…
Washington During a week when President Donald Trump should have been beating his chest nonstop to celebrate the strong U.S. economy, he instead chose to flog his enemies, dead and alive, on Twitter and on camera. On Wednesday, Trump bashed…
What a comedian that Sen. Mitt Romney is! Take the comedy routine he wrote for the Washington Post. Take it, please. It couldn’t have been funnier if he’d worn a fake arrow through his head while he put his hilarious riffs down…