When Muammar Gaddafi, the ‘Commander of Islam’, Africa’s King of Kings and the Great Loon of Libya addressed the United Nations General Assembly at unusual length in 2009, he asked about the hanging of Saddam Hussein.  “How is the member of a government and president of a country sentenced to hang? Who were these people […]

The icon of Our Lady of Kazan (also known as the Black Virgin of Kazan) is one of the most famous in Russian Orthodoxy.  One of the Virgin’s two feast days coincides with the Day of National Unity. This is appropriate. Kazan occupies an important place in Russian history. Its conquest and destruction in 1552 […]

The Palestinian denial of Jewish historical roots in Jerusalem is a denial of their own history, as well.

Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There is too biting to be funny anymore.

An apron can tell a great story, if you know how to tie one on.

A conversation with Bernard Schwartz and William A. Galston on
options for financing U.S. infrastructure renewal.

Little things can indeed mean a lot in China’s challenge to U.S.
preeminence in the Pacific.

Print media is under siege in France, too—but with a Gallic twist.

The benefits of nationalism, as illustrated by its absence.

The flight of the best and brightest from Russia is no accident.