Is America Winning?
With the war on terrorism now six months old, it’s time to review the bidding. How goes the war? Let’s grade four areas:* Military: The bulk of the war in Afghanistan was won in two months. Trouble was, to minimize casualties, U.S. troops avoided some of...Who is Janis Sposato?
In response to last week’s DeadHijackerVisa-gate, the Immigration and Naturalization Service “reassigned” four managers to replace four other managers — whom the agency refuses to name — in order to “begin the process of...Live from Ramallah: The Theater of the Absurd
In the late 1940s, a group of playwrights started a movement called the Theater of the Absurd, based on the Existentialist notion that life is rationally incomprehensible. According to one description, practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd sought “to convey...The War Against The Intellect by Peter Shaw
It is the radical thesis of this extraordinary book that rationality is under assault by the academic community.
Cuba’s Bravest and Best
HAVANA — “There are no banned books in Cuba,” Fidel Castro declared in February 1998, “only those which we have no money to buy.” Of course, books *are* banned in Cuba; just try to locate one that criticizes Castro. Bookstores and public...On Bataan and Balikatan
To your average Howard Stern fan, the Philippines is nothing more than a carnival land of shoe-crazy, dog-eating jungle dwellers who are a perennial source of cheap jokes. Some Americans know better. Just ask the thousands of surviving U.S. soldiers who fought in the...The Only “Solution” Is Victory: War Between Israel and the Palestinians
Not one of these suggestions addresses the real problem: the Palestinians’ conviction that, by continuing to hammer away at Israel, they can defeat and destroy it.
