Not long after Richard Nixon became President in 1969, his Attorney General, the dour, pipe-smoking John Mitchell, scolded the media for what he apparently thought was an over-reaction to the incendiary rhetoric of the new administration. Mitchell, in words more ironic than he or anyone else could appreciate at the time, advised the critics to…

When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, the founders—seeking the broadest consensus possible among the Jewish community—adopted a system of proportional representation, a system that guaranteed that an Orthodox Jewish political party or parties would have representation in the Israeli Knesset or legislature. It was meant as a temporary measure until Israel had…

I apologize to anyone who cares that I haven’t written anything for a couple of weeks. Part of the problem is the enormity of the crisis at hand and the difficulty in breaking it down into bite-size pieces. Consider: On the one hand, our chief administrator is a pathological liar who is brilliant at demagoguery…

Joe Biden spoke at the Munich Security conference last month and assured the audience,–mainly Europeans, I think–not to worry: America will be back. The question is, though, will our allies in Europe and Asia be there waiting for us? Twice now in the past 20 years, America has shown its willingness to go it alone…