The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China.  What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today?  Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights […]

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China. What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today? Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights […]

American church-state relations in practice.

Is neoconservatism a “Jewish mindset”?

One senses a ghastly inevitability about this American adventure—half tragedy, half farce and all folly.

“What if we win?” was a question that resounded in 1778, too.

After several months in which the news from Iraq has steadily if spottily improved, the time has come to think about what just a few months ago seemed unthinkable.

Postmodern toleration has its dogmatic side.

We clearly are able to achieve short- to medium-term improvements in the security conditions in the country, but we should have no illusions that we can soon “win” a bigger game.

In the fifth year of America’s war in Iraq, some astounding numbers have come to suggest that the tide just might be turning.