American initiative for foreign aid to Western Europe following World War II
Dalibor Rohac of the American Enterprise Institute ponders classical liberals’ response to current political trends. Whenever classical liberals feel despondent about the present moment, they ought to remember the circumstances…
Victor Davis Hanson explains at National Review Online why a nuclear North Korea creates a special problem for the United States. When North Korea eventually builds a missile capable of…
Those who heard Jim Geraghty’s presentation earlier this week to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society might remember his reference to an inspector general’s report linked to American operations in…
Jonah Goldberg‘s addresses his latest column at National Review Online to a typical voter among those who label themselves “socially liberal and fiscally conservative,” then consistently support Democrats. For simplicity’s…
Most of us probably have at least a vague history-class recollection that Winston Churchill was the man who identified an “iron curtain” separating western Europe from Communist-dominated eastern Europe after…
In today’s Wall Street Journal, UNC history professor Peter Coclanis contributes a good piece entitled Haiti Needs to be Built, Not Rebuilt in which he makes the sound point that…
Unreal but instantly credible analysis from Casey Research on the cost of the various federal bailout now on the books. Starting with a $8.5 trillion number for the current bailouts,…
OK, everyone’s got to admit now that there’s just something systemically wrong with New Orleans. How many hurricane-hit cities in the past 50 years have been a basket case two…
Writer John Tamny has an excellent column on NRO, discussing Bill Gates’ recent pronouncement that the most important thing we can do is to reduce “inequity.” (Does Gates mean “inequality”?…
I thought immediately of the present-day partisan divide over prosecution of the War on Terror, as I read Lee Edwards’ description of the political debate linked to the Marshall Plan…