THE ONLY PEACE AGREEMENT WORTH CONSIDERING
No one knows what the final details of an agreement coming out of Camp David will look like--or even if there will be one. But one thing is certain. If...
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PEACE AT WHOSE COST?
Why did President Clinton call the hasty high-risk Camp David summit? Some are attributing this to Clinton's hunger for a legacy. Hungry he is, but I cannot believe a president...
WITH BUCHANAN SIDELINED, IT’S CLEAR SAILING FOR BUSH
Why is George W. Bush doing so well? Of the dozen reasons adduced, most have to do with Al Gore--his biweekly change of persona, his recurring investigative troubles, his sheer...
SCALIA AND MIRANDA: UNRAVELING A TALE OF FICTION
Some people have John Grisham. Others Tom Clancy. Not me. For sheer power, stiletto prose and verbal savagery, I'll take Antonin Scalia. Scalia is not a fiction writer. He is...
IT’S A MISTAKE TO MASK ASSAD’S CRUEL REIGN
Just because Syria is a totalitarian country, among the last to lumber into the 21st century, does not mean that the hysterical grief displayed by the Syrian people at President...
NAMBY-PAMBY GLOBAL POLICING
Peacekeeping was invented in the 1950s by Lester Pearson, then Canada's foreign minister. It was a nice, theoretically interesting idea at the time: that the United Nations, acting on behalf...
BEHIND THE SCENES
At a large gathering of conservatives soon after the 1992 election, the introductory speaker began thus: "Welcome to the midpoint of the Bush-Clinton era." The applause was wild and knowing....
BARAK’S GAME PLAN: CAVE IN TO ARAFAT
On May 15, "seething tensions across the West Bank and Gaza Strip exploded into the deadliest violence in the territories in nearly four years" (The Washington Post). "Tensions exploded" or...
THE AFTEREFFECTS OF FEMINISM: EQUALITY AND CHILDLESSNESS
The screaming headline was tabloid size: "I WAS DESPERATE FOR A BABY AND I HAVE THE MEDICAL BILLS TO PROVE IT." Some love-struck movie star? A lesbian celebrity? No. Germaine...
HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH `MILLIONAIRE’ AND REGIS?
It's as close to a national emergency as you can get in the post-Cold War world: Regis blackout. Time Warner's pulling the plug on ABC was billed as a clash...