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The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the Unite...more

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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-wh...more

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The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to ...more

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There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more

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During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological ...more

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British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describ...more

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Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand in my native Hampshire. Until...more

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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the s...more

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Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the Palestinian blend of Mar...more

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A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the quad on what was qu...more

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[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an...more

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried...more

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It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which...more