Jon Margolis

Writers are attracted to wars, or at least use them, because the stress of combat brings out the best and the worst in people, producing on or near the battlefield...

The American people like their privacy, which means far more than closing the door while they get dressed. It means that in most cases they want to be left alone,...

Truth was not the first casualty. Such talk is the conceit of people who work with words and who are pleased to think that ideas are more important than people....

In any dispute between military men and newspaper men and women, most people will side with the soldiers, and for good reason. The soldiers are the ones putting their lives...

Separated as he is by time, distance and culture, President Saddam Hussein of Iraq may never have heard of the late Sen. George Aiken of Vermont. Too bad. Aiken, who...

By conventional enumeration, F-18 would not come between F602 and F604. But somebody here had or has a soul, so even though the numbering system was changed a while ago,...

It was 50 years ago that a very wise person observed that ''the society we are born into is built upon the idea of the reasonable . . . a...

The latest insult to the intelligence of the American people has their approval. Apparently oblivious of the irony, a majority of the people would diminish the rights of the majority...

Because war threatens, so does student anti-war protest, and the early indications are that the one is as foolish as the other. The first such sign is that the young...

Firm in the conviction that when there is unanimity among the virtuous and upright, they could be wrong and are certainly insufferable, let us now praise the Keating Five. Well,...