Establishment news media outlets are awash in new Israel lobby conspiracy theories. This is puzzling since major media organizations seem capable of presenting informed yet contrasting views on many controversial issues. Is widespread firearms availability a major...
David Stockman rocketed to fame as Ronald Reagan's chief of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), his name loosely associated with the "trickle down economics" of the supply-siders, but his recent book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of...
Almost thirty years ago, cultural critic Neil Postman argued in Amusing Ourselves to Death that television’s gradual replacement of the printing press has created a dumbed-down culture driven by mindless entertainment. In this context, Postman claimed that Aldous...
As late as Monday, it had appeared that the government in Belgrade would accept the demands from Brussels and capitulate on Kosovo. The province, occupied by NATO in 1999, was declared independent in February 2008, but despite the Empire's insistence, even the most...
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. War causes chaos; chaos does not cause war. The political disorder released during armed clashes is merely the symptom of...
Editorial note: This essay appears in the current issue of Chronicles magazine, the feisty conservative monthly put out by the Rockford Institute, where my column "Between the Lines" appears regularly. Normally, the content I provide Chronicles is exclusive: that is,...
Four civilians were killed when gunmen attacked a home in Qayara. In Mosul, a roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded another. A roadside bomb in Muqdadiya killed a policeman. A Sahwa commander was killed in Shirqat when a sticky bomb blew up. Gunmen wounded a...
Napoleon might once have quipped that armies march on their stomachs, but what ties together a fighting force is the bonds of comradeship and loyalty among the individual soldiers. Elite military units have translated this sense of brotherhood into “leave no man...
