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What is war good for? It holds us in amber, chains us to the past, and makes all those who...

What Tanenhaus has created is a comparison, not an analysis. But anything is better than the brain-dead analysis we've had...

One reason today's media figures are so stuck on Bush (and his acolytes) might be the knowledge that, as his...

When Republicans trot out lines about appeasement, or hold the spectre of George McGovern over Democrats' heads, this should be...

It's possible Mel Gibson's career will survive its present nadir. But he has already made himself anathema to nearly half...

So conservatives don't read Hofstadter because it's uncomfortable. Liberals don't read him because they're living in what he considers a...

Conservativism is always the same. It never has new tales to tell. It seeks to replicate the past, always. That...

A lot of our childhood heroes, it turns out, have feet of clay. Sports stars fade or go down in...

Rather than arguing against what a fool believes, wise men will seize the power to reason a way out, a...

The essence of what must happen in our time is the replacement of the Zero Sum Game – its politics,...