Romney: Atheists Need Religion Too

Mitt Romney spoke about the relationship between religion and politics again last week, continuing and clarifying the argument he made in December while still a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The occasion for his recent remarks was his receipt...

Fifty Years On

What with all the 40th anniversary blathering about the “Spring of ‘68” and the international youth uprising that it is now fondly remembered as having represented (especially by the no-longer-youths who were there then and are now writing the cultural criticism), it...

Sending the Right Signal

And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.                                                                                                            George W. Bush   Just perhaps, President Bush can send the ‘right signal’ by “supporting the...

Today In History: 12 May 1970

An earlier post today dealt with some of the information that has started to flow from the papers and materials that Georgetown Law Professor Sam Dash’s estate deeded to the Library of Congress after his death in 2004 and which have just been opened to the public....

Kristol: Nixon One of the Great Defenders of Israel

Expressing his affection and admiration for the Israeli people, Richard Nixon stated: Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for...