Jon Margolis

Even before Woodrow Wilson made such a big deal about it at the end of World War I, Americans were firm believers in the right of ''national self-determination.'' It sounds...

Et tu, Norme? Just when we think we`ve found a real hero, a soldier tough enough to know that gentleness is a manly virtue, what does Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf do?...

The first reaction, that at his end John Voelker deserved more than the few paragraphs he got in the major papers, had to be reconsidered. Among Voelker`s many virtues was...

Among the smaller pities of life is that the organized opposition to the ''animal rights'' movement is being led by furriers and butchers. Their leadership makes it too easy to...

Peace, especially after victory, is far better than war, but it does not make anyone smarter. It would be pleasing to report that the end of the fighting meant an...

There are no ''splendid little wars,'' and it is to everyone`s credit that no one is claiming we just had one. But to the extent that wars can be civilized,...

Let us now praise Maj. Gen. Thomas Rhame, the commander of the First Infantry Division, who last week took action the likes of which had fallen into disuse: He held...

On Oct. 26, 1962, President John Kennedy got two letters from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The first was conciliatory, suggesting a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The second was...

Great nations prefer to go to war only for their vital interests or for their most basic beliefs, or better yet for both, and they should never delude themselves. Having...

''Can you remember,'' someone was saying, ''that it was on the steps of Fritzel`s that one of Al Capone`s associates proclaimed that his boss was `nutty as a fruitcake` and...