At the heart of President Obama’s nuclear weapons policy lies a key assumption – that Iran, North Korea and other “rogue” states are susceptible to threats of isolation and tempted by global acceptance. He may be right – and I hope he is – but history offers compelling evidence to the contrary. Of his new …
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Great athletes describe how, during moments of success, they feel as if time is slowing down so that – whether they are leading a fast break or awaiting a 95-mile-an-hour pitch – they see the game unfold in a kind of slow motion. In the arena of public affairs, we, too, have the power to …
Item: While lawmakers receive threatening phone calls and their offices are vandalized in the aftermath of this week’s votes on health reform, Democrats and Republicans blame one another for the mayhem. Item: The Republican-leaning American Enterprise Institute fires David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, for suggesting that Republicans should have worked …
As we know, those who live in glass houses shouldn‟t throw stones. What, then, shall we make of a nation that pretends to live in a glass house on human rights, and then provides the stones for its enemies to throw? That‟s the question to ponder in light of today‟s news, brought to us by …
It is the land of Plato and Aristotle, home to the Acropolis and Parthenon, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics and the place from which the Olympics were re-born for the modern age over a century ago. It is Greece and, in its efforts to solve its budget crisis, it may offer a window into …
They live on the other side of the world, imprisoned in a nation whose leaders fear progress and prevent modernity. Isolated from all others, brainwashed to believe that their country is the best on Earth, they live in horrific conditions – with little electricity and running water; with malnourishment producing a generation of stunted growth, …
It was October, 1937, and President Roosevelt was trying to convince Americans to focus on the frightening events in Europe and Asia, to understand that the United States could not wall itself off from the world and to recognize that the march of totalitarianism abroad was a mounting threat at home. The nation, however, was …