This week, while we celebrate the work of America's founders, I honor a living freedom fighter: billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai. When Communist China crushed freedom in Hong Kong, Lai could have gone anywhere in the world and lived a life of luxury. But he chose to stay in Hong Kong and go to jail. A new documentary, "The Hong Konger," tells his ...
If, as many geniuses have believed, civilization depends on individual restraint, then in order to maintain restraint, we require certain outlets for the primordial feelings of anger, aggression, and resentment that we experience ...
A story that appeared recently in Libération, the left-wing French newspaper in financial difficulty, seemed to me to capture the spirit of our times very well. It concerned an attack on a teacher in a ZEP (a zone d"éducation ...
On September 20, 2013, President Obama flew the black flag above his White House to honor prisoners of war and soldiers still missing in action. If you were unaware of this, it is not surprising. The proclamation was quietly released ...
It's been ten years since the Iraq War was launched. Back then, a few prominent individuals endeavored to thwart what is perhaps the greatest strategic mistake in United States history. Each stood against a country that was in ...
On January 23, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat. He gave the generals three years to open up all positions to women, and if any of them think there is a job women can"t do, they"ll have to explain ...
Imagine if Al Franken gave you a call and offered to fight you. A real fight, too"no gloves, no clock, and no rules. Would you do it? Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, would not. He explained it all in his sniveling and aptly ...
Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 24 in Savannah, GA, a young interracial couple was strolling downtown through a former slave market called Ellis Square. Twenty-three-year-old Andrew Quade, the white boyfriend of a black ...
What did the Indian say when he crossed the road? "Me just walkum Trail of Tears!" Merely for telling that joke, current mores dictate that I should apologize and make amends for insulting a sacrosanct assembly's sense of ...
Leaning over the bar in London's Union Jack Club drinking rum, I stood on legs of flesh and bone. The soldier next to me stood on legs of plastic and metal. He"d lost three limbs after being blown up in Afghanistan and only his left ...
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