Politics

All Is Hype for the Biden-Putin Summit 0
- Politics
- June 14, 2021
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Karl Marx’s comment came to mind as President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to equate their tete-a-tete at the G7 confab in Cornwall, England, to the Atlantic Charter conference of 80 years ago. Those were historic days, to which these days cannot compare.
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Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage 0
- Politics
- June 11, 2021
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discovering words that would everywhere and always be true. The wise men went away and returned to present the monarch with this six-word sentence: “And this, too, shall pass away.” So, the question: How long will Sen. Joe
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What Is America’s Cause in the World?0
- Politics
- June 8, 2021
“Take away this pudding; it has no theme,” is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him. Writers have used Churchill’s remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose. For most of our lifetimes, this has not been true of the United
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Fibbing Fauci Shows He’s Just Another Crisis-Loving Intellectual 0
- Politics
- June 4, 2021
A few months into the COVID pandemic, an acquaintance of mine got an adorable puppy and named it… Fauci. Admittedly, it is kind of a cute name for a dog. But after the past several days’ news reports, I’m wondering whether my acquaintance will choose a new moniker for that poor puppy sometime soon. For
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Democratic Showdown: Kamala vs. Manchin 0
- Politics
- June 4, 2021
Speaking in Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of the racial atrocity there, Joe Biden belatedly turned to the issue of voting rights, to explain why he is having such difficulty winning passage of the party’s priority legislation. I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden
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Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?0
- Politics
- June 1, 2021
Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the “last full measure of devotion” to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are
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