On April 23, 2011, The New York Times carried a story about the Embassy of God, a Pentecostal megachurch in, of all places, Kiev. I had known about this church before, but the Times story, in combination with other items about Ukraine that had come to my intention, made me reflect about it once more. […]

I have to admit that the killing of Osama bin Laden on Sunday put me in a halfway good mood. It seemed to me not only a victory against resolute and still dangerous enemies, but also an event that could help galvanize the national spirit at a time when so many Americans think that our […]

George Monbiot of the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian has a must-read column in which he admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed.Read the whole piece for a thoughtful and brutally clear expose of the intellectual bankruptcy of the green movement from one […]

President Obama has been able to announce the news that Americans have longed to hear for the last ten years:  Osama bin Laden is dead, his corpse flung into the sea.Better, he is dead at America’s hands.Better yet, he died a beaten man.  His bid for the leadership of global Islam had failed, and Osama […]

Well it’s (expletive deleted) about time! That is both my analytical and emotional bottom line on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden yesterday, on May 1, 2011. It is embarrassing, even humiliating, that it took the US government, notably the CIA, nearly a decade to chase down and take out of play this horrible […]

U.S. oceans policy is dangerously adrift.

Alexander Girard turned the act of displaying folk art into an art form all its own.

The history of milk—from sacred nourishment to taboo drink to our modern, dairy-saturated abundance.

An unsentimental checklist for assessing an ally's value in parlous times.

Collective defense in the coming century will require both greater reciprocity and more self-reliance on the part of our allies.