You might think this article comes a little late since it's being published after Memorial Day. But now that Memorial Day has come and gone, it's worth thinking about what it represents and why the debate about Memorial Day is so crucial. "Debate," you might say....
All my life, I've had distinctly minority positions on almost every issue. This started in high school. Whether the issue was Barry Goldwater (I found him intriguing, and he seemed far less corrupt than Lyndon Johnson), the rights of homosexuals (I was opposed to cops...
John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, faces a dilemma. You might recall that he was one of the most controversial lawyers in the Bush administration's early years. Yoo was the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal...
Author's note: I gave this talk at the Peace Feast in Seaside, Calif., on March 29. This week the Monterey County Weekly ran an article in which it "outed" me as an antiwar professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. I'm not complaining: everything in that...
I stayed home Tuesday morning to watch the much-hyped Barack Obama speech on race and Jeremiah Wright. I was glad I did. I'll forgive him his 35-minute, Bill Clinton-style delay before speaking because this speech was obviously one of the most important of his...
KING HENRY V [disguised as a fellow soldier] I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's minds: methinks I could not die any where so contented as in the king's company; his cause being just and his quarrel...
Celebrate Good Times Whenever a bloodthirsty dictator resigns or, even better, dies, I pause to celebrate. I would have celebrated at Hitler's death had I been alive then. Ditto Stalin. And I did celebrate when Mao died. I look forward to Fidel Castro's death....
On February 5, I gave a luncheon talk on the Iraq war at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. About 60 people attended. I spoke after fellow Antiwar.com columnist Ivan Eland. Ivan laid out a plan for partitioning Iraq or at least having a very weak central...
Regular readers of Antiwar.com probably often wonder who we columnists are in flesh and blood. Many of you like some/many/all of the articles we write, but you probably still wonder what we would be like as speakers. To put it bluntly, would you want to spend some of...
Question: Which Pakistani leader should the U.S. government support? You wouldn't know it from watching most of the candidates for president, but this is a trick question. Why is it a trick question? Because it's like asking, "When did you stop beating your...
