Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank, has been named Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. But while AEI is known as a hub for hawkish neoconservatives--including Richard Perle, David Frum, and Michael Ledeen--Wolfowitz will not be working on any more foreign...

The Michael Vick dog-fighting case is a case study of cruelty and brutality. It's also a study of insincerity, even mendacity, on the part of those, far beyond Vick, who have orchestrated a counter-offensive against the truth. But most compellingly, the Vick case is a study in possible conspiracy and...

If art and politics run counter to each other, it's little wonder that a hip new production at the Spoleto Festival USA is so anti-utopian. Why? Because the leading utopian in the world today is our own 43rd president, who preaches, and practices, a kind of coercive do-gooderism that has...

"If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied."

Those bitter words do not come from some folk-singing anti-war protestor. They come from a conservative Englishman, Rudyard Kipling, in his collection, "Epitaphs of the Great War." And those same words were heard today on Capitol Hill...

"For Reasons of State." It's arguably the strongest reason for doing something--for doing anything. The Romans said it well: Videant consules, ne respublica detrimentum capiat--"Let the consuls look to the safety of the state." When they had to, Roman leaders vested themselves with unlimited power. And who can argue with...

So what will Judith Regan do for her next act, now that she's been fired from her publishing gig by Rupert Murdoch?

She's never been one go gently into anything. Moreover, she is totally on her own now, free to listen to her own inner muses--or inner whatevers. In...

The usual pattern in American politics is this: The Reagan Democrats win the politics, and then they lose the policy. But that pattern--victory turned into defeat--is likely to change. And when it does--when their victories endure--America will change, and so will its role in the world.

The Reagan Democrats...

Inside the mind of Mark Foley:

Well, I have succeeded in my plan. I have destroyed the Republican Party, or at least destroyed its prospects for Election 2006. Destroying myself seems like a small price to pay. And as we shall see, I have a plan, a plan for...

I had a visitor last midnight, a most peculiar stranger. I'll admit I was pondering weak and weary last night, but this morning, I see clearly what has happened. It's my past, but it's your future--our future.

Last night I was at home burning the midnight oil. Then I...

So is the old John McCain back? Are we seeing the re-emergence of the straight-talking Arizona maverick who delights liberals and vexes conservatives--especially George W. Bush--with his ideo-heterodoxy? At the climax of his political career, with the White House beckoning to him, McCain may have discovered that rare thing in...

Toronto - After a quarter-century of fighting the disease, the 24,000 AIDS activists, public health experts, and civic leaders who are gathered here have good reason to feel proud of their accomplishments--and even more reason to feel dread about the future. After 28 million deaths from AIDS, significant breakthroughs in...

Sir Isaiah Berlin looked down at the newspaper article and smiled. Actually, maybe the expression on his wraith face was more of a sigh. He was reading aloud, in his plummy British accent, the words of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: "What we're seeing here is, in a sense...the birth...

One particular cloud on the horizon might be no bigger than a fist right now, but everyone in the Pentagon knows that this cloud could explode with reputation-shattering thunder and lightning. That cloud has a name: H.R. McMaster.

On PBS' "Washington Week in Review" show earlier this evening, John...

Watching the always-poised Condi Rice this morning, I was reminded why I could never be a professional diplomat. And if you possess a normal respect for the truth and a minimal sense of the ridiculous, you probably couldn't be one, either.

Let's face it: there's something refreshing about Trumanesque...

I figured I’d get a robust reaction to my posting of December 17, in which I attacked Ronnie Earle, the Texas district attorney who has turned his attention from indicting Tom DeLay to suppressing the free speech of the Free Enterprise Fund.

And Huffington Post-ers were vocal, even...

Let’s stipulate that many, perhaps most, Huffington Post readers think that Tom DeLay is a bad person.

But how far would they want to go to see him pursued and hounded? Should the end justify any means? And how much collateral damage should be done to the First Amendment—including...

The Arabists are back, and “Nightline” has got ‘em. Not everyone is going to welcome these Arabists, of course, but it seems that US foreign policy can’t function without them.

“Arabist” is the term used to describe those foreign-affairs professionals—State Department officials, academics, charitable workers, and others, including the...

One consistent ace in the hole for George W. Bush as he defends his beleaguered Iraq policy has been the support of the United Kingdom -- it's one of the few good cards that the President has left in his hand. At least for now.

Aside from a few long-memoried...

I just got an interesting e-mail from the Christian Coalition, the group founded by Pat Robertson. It was a press release from Jim Backlin, Vice President of Legislative Affairs at the Coalition, praising the U.S. Naval Academy for its announcement that it would continue to conduct prayers at mealtime.

Every American should spend time reading through at least some of the just-released transcripts of the oral histories from firefighters and other emergency workers who were present at Ground Zero on 9-11. To read those words is not only a fitting act of devotion, but also, as we near...