Is Thomas Friedman Defending the Bush Doctrine?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman offers what may be the most thought-provoking commentary on the withdrawal of American combat forces from Iraq: In short: the key struggle with Islam is not...
View ArticleThe Nobel Peace Prize Committee (Finally) Gets One Right
Recently, the committee conferring the Nobel Peace Prize decided to give the award to someone who actually deserves it: jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Excerpts of his writings can be found in Q...
View ArticleMid East Situation Tests Obama’s Foreign Policy Leadership
If drawing a word picture of the increasingly uncivil unrest in the Middle East – and especially Egypt – the image would be dominated by the words “democracy,” “protest,” “youth,” and “change,” among...
View ArticleGorbachev Speaks Truth to Power
As post-communist Russia has drifted further and further towards authoritarianism, one seemingly insurmountable obstacle has thwarted would-be reformers: the lack of an opposition figure who can...
View ArticleCelebrated Historian Says Obama Doesn’t Get History
Washington is a town where being an intellectual means being relentlessly synchronized with the conventional wisdom, no matter how vapid. That’s how President Obama (no doubt a smart man by any...
View ArticlePouring Cold Water on the Arab Spring
The always-provocative strategist George Friedman (head of Austin-based STRATFOR) is out with a new analysis of President Obama’s Middle East policy today on RealClearWorld (caveat: Friedman is always...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Constitutional Crisis
A blog post last Friday by Loren Kaye at Fox and Hounds Daily provides another variation on the theme of California’s broken governing structure. Two budget-related developments yesterday bring a small...
View ArticleCan Romney Defend Democratic Capitalism?
I’m glad to see the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page echoing Troy’s advice to Mitt Romney to get out in front of the Bain-bashing and make a full-throated defense of free market capitalism. But as...
View ArticleDeath of Deliberative Democracy?
If you’re someone who thinks that democracy works best when citizens and their representatives take time to deliberate (i.e. reason and think together), then a new Fox News/Bing collaboration will not...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Real Prop. 8 Legacy
As usual, Troy puts his finger on the essential issue in an otherwise complicated matter. Writing with John Yoo for City Journal recently our Senior Fellow explains how the Supreme Court’s ruling in...
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