Between Liberalism and Democracy
Charles R. Kesler reviews The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It, by Yascha Mounk.
The Good War
The WWII Museum, in New Orleans, is one of the best places to appreciate what began for the U.S. at Pearl Harbor.
Obama at Selma
President Barack Obama’s speech in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” voting-rights march drew glowing reviews, with some commentators hailing it as the greatest speech of ...
Imbibing with Bill
Bill Buckley introduced me to a lot of things over the years, including drink. Alcoholic beverages, I mean — what the late senator John Tower, in the hearings on his ...
No Thanks, Mr. President
President Obama has asked the Congress for authorization to use military force against Syria to punish Bashar Assad’s regime for its use of chemical weapons. Yet what he asks of ...
Biden’s Old-School Demagogy
This one was hard to watch, and I suspect many fewer people did watch it than watched the first presidential debate. The vice-presidential debate resembled one of those cacophonous political ...
Obama’s Truth
More than any Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama in his writings and speeches has worked out an impressive interpretation of American history that culminates in modern liberalism. It ...
The Constitution, at Last
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, American politics revolved around the Constitution. Until the New Deal, and in certain respects until the mid-1960s, almost every major U.S. ...
The Constitution, at Last
Let us return from a regime of arbitrary power to one of self-government
An American Original
The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s , edited by Thomas L. Jeffers (Free Press, 496 pp., $35)
In the old days, traditionalists ...