Fareed Zakaria and Bush’s Pre-9/11 Approval Rating

By Peter Wehner October 8, 2009

In his Newsweek piece on containing a nuclear Iran, Fareed Zakaria writes, “Recall that George W. Bush’s approval rating on Sept. 10, 2001, was about 40 percent.” I actually do ...

An Anthem to the Obama Presidency: ‘You’re So Vain’

By Peter Wehner October 6, 2009

On Saturday I wrote why I thought Obama’s foray to Copenhagen on behalf of Chicago’s Olympic bid would hurt Obama beyond this single episode. In today’s Washington Post, George Will and ...

Olympics Defeat Will Hurt Obama

By Peter Wehner October 3, 2009

I will, with some hesitation, dissent from Jonah’s political analysis. My instinct is that the Chicago Olympics fiasco will hurt President Obama a fair amount and that it’s not an ...

‘He’s a worm’

By Peter Wehner September 24, 2009

My former boss and friend Bill Bennett is a man of many talents and many virtues, with loyalty being high among them. Bill was on CNN’s The Situation Room yesterday ...

A Trip to the Woodshed

By Peter Wehner September 22, 2009

In his column today, Bill McGurn, who was charged with providing adult supervision to Matt Latimer when he was in the White House, demolishes Latimer and his new “tell-all” book. ...

Remembering Irving Kristol

By Peter Wehner September 18, 2009

Just a word on the passing of Irving Kristol. Irving was a great man, a model and courageous public intellectual, and a giant in the conservative movement. He brought to it ...

A Telling Endorsement

By Peter Wehner September 15, 2009

Osama bin Laden has endorsed Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and Stephen Walt and John J. Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. More could be said; but ...

Double Standard

By Peter Wehner September 15, 2009

Mark Salter, a supremely gifted writer, has a piece very worth reading, “The Media’s Pathetic Double Standard.” Salter’s core point is this: Today’s “birthers,” are no more offensive or weird than ...

Happenings with the Foreign Policy Initative

By Peter Wehner September 9, 2009

The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is hosting a forum on September 21 and 22 to discuss how the United States and its allies can advance and defend democracy around the ...

Abrams v. Carter

By Peter Wehner September 9, 2009

My former White House colleague Elliott Abrams has now gone two rounds with former president Jimmy Carter on the matter of Israel and the Palestinians. They can be found here, ...