POLITICS

This month, sandwiched somewhere in between Britney Spears’ videos, Trojan condom ads, booze-drenched Mardi Gras parties, soft-porn soap operas, and reruns of vulgar stunt shows, MTV will broadcast a “global town meeting” featuring Secretary of State...

A few weeks ago, many liberals were crowing that the War on Terrorism had forced the Bush administration to abandon “isolationism” and embrace “globalism” by seeking out an international coalition. This is part of an effort to make independent,...

Addressing the World Economic Forum meeting in New York last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said, “I think it’s a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of ‘is the rich world giving back...

The United States should not be fighting for a democratic Afghanistan. In fact, it should not be fighting for democracy at all–not in Afghanistan, not in China, and not even in America. Democracy and dictatorship are not rivals; they are brothers. In...

“The shift from personal autonomy to dependence on government is perhaps the defining characteristic of modern American politics. In the span of barely one lifetime, a nation grounded in ideals of individual liberty has been transformed into one in which federal...

America’s war policy faces a deadly roadblock. The problem is partly the recalcitrance of our so-called allies, from the quavering Europeans to the increasingly hostile Saudis. Most of our “coalition” wants us to declare victory in Afghanistan and go...

Though he has pledged to defend America’s freedom against terrorists, President Bush, in his State of the Union address, gave his unequivocal support to a different threat against our way of life: the “national service” movement. Adding his voice to...

Time for a quick pop quiz. Can you identify the speaker? “Today, and for generations to come, America will benefit from this law, which expresses our national commitment to quality education for all children.” President Bush, who just signed a highly...

“But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.” — Lord Macaulay A scoop from Pat Buchanan: America has an established religion. No, it’s not Christianity, to his excruciating frustration —...

As if New Yorkers don’t already have enough to deal with, they must now brace for the arrival of pie-throwing, critter-liberating, bomb-building, arson-setting, spell-casting, utensil-stealing cop-haters wearing giant puppet heads. This disruptive freak show...

Over the coming weeks, eight congressional subcommittees will hold at least 10 hearings on the collapse of Enron. Rarely has there been such a profligate and irresponsible distortion of congressional priorities during a time of national crisis. Even in peacetime,...

I offer the following guide for those Americans who may be asked to speak on political issues but are confused about what to say. Since issues can be annoyingly fickle — hot one day, dead the next — I’ve tried to keep the commentary confined to the...

“It’s hard not to notice that political discussion over the last decade has increasingly degenerated into name-calling,” Brian Anderson wrote in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal last year. “The insults most often come from the left:...

Some of the world’s most offensive contemporary fiction is being produced by the government of Saudi Arabia. Consider the mainstream Saudi newspaper Al-Jazeera, which recently asserted that terrorism against the United States does not stem from Islamist...

There are good cops and there are bad cops. Sept. 11 has not changed that fact. We saw the best of the best sacrifice their lives for their fellow citizens when the World Trade Center crumbled. But while we honor the memory of heroic police officers, we must not turn...