Last week we looked at Mr David Frum, and we found him so incredible and fantastic that we felt we'd have to come back and look at him some more this week. Our initial interest in him was excited by this stray Canuck being inflicted on right wing British...
Turkey’s Election: Complications and Blowback?
The first thing Ivan Eland, the Cato Institute's Director of defense Policy Studies, said to me about the election in Turkey was that the victory of a putatively moderate Islamicist party is at least partly attributable the increasingly aggressive tone of U.S. foreign...
ATTACK OF THE OXYMORONS
When I was a little boy, no more than ten years old, I steadfastly refused to go to sleep at night without first putting the theme from the movie Exodus, by Ernest Gold, on the old record player. The soaring chords, the majestic crescendos, the uplifting arpeggios...
ATTACK OF THE OXYMORONS
When I was a little boy, no more than ten years old, I steadfastly refused to go to sleep at night without first putting the theme from the movie Exodus, by Ernest Gold, on the old record player. The soaring chords, the majestic crescendos, the uplifting arpeggios...
A North Korea-Pakistan Connection?
A little over two weeks after North Korea shocked the world by admitting that it has a clandestine nuclear weapons acquisition programme, some more dismaying facts have come to light. The most stunning of these may be the world's first instance of the actual transfer,...
The Once Controversial Question of War Finance
With regard to the war or "war," the hot-and-cold rhetoric of the Bush II administration, lo! these many months, has been wonderful to behold: first they say that "we" must launch an aggressive war against Iraq now, or "we" are doomed. Tomorrow will be too late! Then...
NEOCONS OF THE LEFT
Certain people are touchstones – your reaction to them is a defining moment, a means of identifying who you are and what you believe. My friend Pat Buchanan is one of those polarizing types (we have that in common), and the reaction to his new magazine, The...
NEOCONS OF THE LEFT
Certain people are touchstones – your reaction to them is a defining moment, a means of identifying who you are and what you believe. My friend Pat Buchanan is one of those polarizing types (we have that in common), and the reaction to his new magazine, The...