That we have to take Donald Trump seriously confirms my longstanding prognosis that we've entered another dimension in which up is down, black is white, and reason is dethroned: in short, we're living in BizarroWorld, and the landscape is not very inviting. Yet...
There's a group of GOP presidential aspirants who have a next-to-zero chance of clinching the nomination who've decided that their main issue, the central organizing principle of their campaigns, is going to be needling Rand Paul. While Lindsey Graham is competing for...
By the time you read this, I'll already be undergoing yet another unpleasant medical procedure – yes, old age beckons! Which means, unfortunately, there's no column today: and I'll be recuperating through Tuesday, which means I won't be back at the old stand...
As we celebrate Independence Day, honoring the American colonists' successful fight to be free of the British crown and establish their own sovereign state, it is instructive to note that the US is, today, the greatest enemy of sovereignty on earth. When the British...
There's much talk of reforming the criminal justice system: libertarian-ish GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul is making the unfairness of sentences that have a disparate impact on minorities a major theme of his campaign, which is all to the good. • But what...
No matter what one thinks of the historic Supreme Court decision establishing the right of gay couples to marry, it is bound to have an effect on the conduct of US foreign policy – perhaps quite a substantial one. The United States is a global empire: what we do...
Campaign books are usually forgettable, uniformly boring, and go mostly unread. However, Sen. Rand Paul's recently published addition to the genre is neither forgettable nor boring: if it goes largely unread then that will be a shame. For it is a sincerely written,...
As the June 30 deadline for the conclusion of talks on Iran's nuclear program looms, the main foreign policy issue of our time comes ever more sharply into focus. And by that I don't just mean the immediate question of whether a deal can be reached, but also the...
The recent attack on a predominantly African-American church by a murderous racist has provoked a passionate debate about who is – and is not – a "terrorist." According to FBI director James Comey, the perpetrator of the Charleston massacre – in which nine people were...
I've been having some minor but intrusive health problems lately, and today is one of those days – and so, unfortunately, I won't be writing a column. But never fear, I'll be back on Monday, so stay tuned – as we used to say back in the era of television...
