The Church Is Too Important to Be Left to the Clerics
For its governance, the Catholic Church should turn to laity who have the necessary independence and qualifications.
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We Americans and Our Spies
"Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror" by Michael V. Hayden
Found Wanting
In a country in which fewer and fewer people serve in an ever-shrinking all-volunteer military, it can be difficult to make a comprehensive case to the civilian public about the ...
On Iran: It’s Not about the Bomb, It’s about the Strategy
This weekend’s Sunday-morning talk shows remained focused on Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and its possible effect on the ongoing talks with Iran on its nuclear program.
In the meantime, a seemingly ...
Foreign Policy by Map
George W. Bush left office with his activist foreign policy in disrepute. Fast-forward six years: President Barack Obama has pursued, in some respects, the opposite approach, and yet he has ...
A Buckley Man
As we all know, Bill was one of the most consequential figures of he age, let alone in our lives as conservatives. He defined us, to wit: when I went ...
A Correction in Today’s Wall Street Journal
The following is listed in the corrections section of my favorite paper today: “IN ANCIENT ROME, asses were a kind of coin used as currency. Wednesday’s Deja Vu column ...
Taking Care of Veterans
The Washington Post business section (rarely read in this one-industry town) had a piece yesterday on the extraordinary failure of the federal government to comply with a 1999 law requiring ...
Our Best and Bravest
I went to a presentation by a young Marine infantry lieutenant last week about the platoon he led in the assault on the insurgents in Fallujah a few months ago. ...
Among Heroes
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Saturday, a few NR writers and friends were among those visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed Medical Center, at a monthly open house. Some of us wrote ...