Charles Krauthammer

"Today the guns are silent. ... The entire world is quietly at peace." So said Douglas MacArthur in September 1945. Seeing that quotation, now inscribed in stone at the new...

Those of us who publicly opposed placing the World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington argued that doing so was a prescription for failure. If the memorial were...

In the mid-1970s, the last happy days of America's oil innocence, the average American car was a monster weighing 4,000 pounds. The oil shocks induced belated rationality into American oil...

Democrats calling for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation invoke the principle of ministerial responsibility: a Cabinet secretary must take ultimate responsibility for what happens on his watch. Interesting idea. Where was it...

On Sept. 11, 2001, America awoke to the great jihad, wondering: What is this about? We have come to agree on the obvious answers: religion, ideology, political power and territory....

Anti-Semitism, once just a European disease, has gone global. The outgoing prime minister of Malaysia gets a standing ovation from leaders of 57 Islamic countries when he calls upon them...

In 1952, a presidential candidate running against an administration that had gotten the U.S. into a debilitating and inconclusive war abroad pledged: "I will go to Korea." He won. A...

The first George Bush once said he thought the Gulf War would cure America of the Vietnam syndrome. He was wrong. There is no cure for the Vietnam syndrome. It...

"This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger...

The New York Times swooned. Newsweek put it on its cover. Commentators everywhere expressed sorrowful dismay that Bush had not done it long ago. Indeed, one has to admire it--the...