Muckety Mucks

In the early 1990s, the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky wrote a diverting book review in the New Republic about Mikhail Gorbachev. His take was that Gorbachev, if I recall correctly,...

Poor Secretary of State John Kerry. He’s been traipsing around the Middle East, trying to revive—when, incidentally, is it not trying to be revived?—the peace process and assuage ruffled feathers...

In what could be called the first volley of the 2016 Republican primary, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the strain of libertarianism concerned with recent NSA civil-liberties violations a...

The malignant cancer cells oozing from the petri dish of progressive policy known as the City of Detroit are soon to metastasize throughout the body politic. The disease, which has...

The search is on for the new wave of presidential contenders in the GOP. Today’s Washington Post has a lengthy piece on Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose aides have suggested...

Former vice president Dick Cheney has reemerged periodically from wherever he’s holed up these days to snarl at the media or complain about the Obama administration’s laxity when it comes...

Few figures in twentieth century history aroused as much enmity and admiration as Margaret Thatcher, who died at the age of 87. “The Lady’s not for turning,” she declared, and,...

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, Andrew J. Bacevich has adopted the epistolary mode of communication in the latest Harper’s, a magazine that can always be counted...

One of the more lamentable traits of neoconservatism has been steadily to try and lower the bar of who—or what—is deemed anti-Semitic. Elliott Abrams, for example, recently denounced former Senator...

With his decision to retire from the Senate and join the Heritage Foundation as its new president, Jim DeMint has created a minor furor in Washington. Is he simply cashing...

Events in Libya are rendering it increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that President Obama’s 2011 military action in that country, hailed by his administration and many others as a...

Mitt Romney’s generally lackluster performance in the presidential debate on foreign policy did feature a fairly spirited attack on the Obama administration’s handling of Middle East affairs. The criticism reflected...