Paul Greenberg

(With apologies to James Branch Cabell) Dear Sir, It was wholly a pleasure to hear from you, and receive the two-page, single-spaced letter full of personal reminiscences, repeated admonitions to...

Russia still gropes. Whether toward freedom or tyranny, an ordered liberty or brutal chaos, remains as uncertain as in 1917. Without a tradition of law, legitimacy, and a civil society,...

To no one's surprise, North Korea is becoming a nuclear power. Indeed, it may already have The Bomb, or at least one Bomb. The world, always a dangerous place, becomes...

The Russian thaw always comes unexpectedly. The magnitude of it: What may be a slow reawakening in more temperate climes comes to long-frozen rivers and still landscapes not unlike a...

Even the pundits are waking up. David Broder, the terribly sober dean of Washington correspondents, had his eyes opened when he discovered the latest Clinton-clause. (Clinton-clause, n.: The scarcely detectable...

It happens like this. Three or four months beforehand, a voice over the phone invites you to speak in some exotic, semi-tropical port of call. Like Tampa. It sounds as...

There were some good things, some fine things, in the economic program the president outlined Wednesday night. There was the emphasis on the next generation-as in the plan to expand...

The lead story on the front page of the Sunday New York Times essentially accused the Clinton White House of lying. Relying on an unidentified source, the story took issue...

Bill Clinton could not have done better in filling two important, not to say, crucial positions last week-one at the center of this country's challenge at home, the other at...

I am going to break my self-imposed rule not to mention the young lady who lives with the Clintons and who deserves as much privacy as a First Child can...