People who like to think and read (and write) about politics often fool ourselves. We become skilled at drawing out the meaning of events — especially if the events themselves signify little or nothing at all. Many political addicts imagined that the election of Barack Obama would usher in massive changes to our government and even our society. Judging by the crowds he met in Germany, the whole world expected to be changed ...
People who like to think and read (and write) about politics often fool ourselves. We become skilled at drawing out the meaning of events — especially if the events themselves signify little or nothing at all. Many political addicts imagined that the election of Barack Obama would usher in massive changes to our government...
Students at the University of California, Berkeley demanded that they be excused from an in-class exam in their labor-issues class because they aren’t privileged enough to be able to handle it...
News came on Wednesday that three of our Green Berets were killed in Niger, and two wounded. (For a story, go here.) What were they doing in Niger? They were fighting al-Qaeda — the Jihad, as I...
An old rule of thumb holds that when someone says it’s not about the money, it’s really about the money.
But there are exceptions to almost every rule. The National Rifle Association is a...
All countries have mental illness, but its expression differs dramatically by culture. Historically, in southeast Asia, men whose minds were coming unglued displayed symptoms of wild,...
If Secretary of State Rex Tillerson resigned, how would anyone know?
He has become the nation’s least influential top diplomat in recent memory. His relationship with the president of the...
President Donald J. Trump last week promised Americans “a giant, beautiful, massive — the biggest ever in our country — tax cut.” As delicious as that sounds, Trump’s tax overhaul may be...
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