Commentary / World Mar 19, 2019
Has the Catholic Church committed the worst crime in U.S. history?
It's a fair question given the extent of horrifying alleged instances of sexual abuse of children and coverups.
Commentary / World May 1, 2017
Will France elect a Gallic Obama?
Emmanual Macron is a virtuoso of vagueness who calls to mind a certain freshman senator in 2008.
Commentary / World Mar 31, 2017
Why the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts should be abolished
It's a government frill that needs to be sheared.
Commentary / World Mar 11, 2017
A wry squint into the grim future of the U.S.
Novelist Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
Commentary / World Feb 14, 2017
Who'll protect Americans from their protectors?
The Trump administration wants to make America greater by making its companies less competitive.
Commentary / World Jan 30, 2017
U.S. suffers an excess of intellectual emptiness
Both U.S. President Donald Trump and higher education suffer from a "storm of outraged ego."
Commentary / World Jan 29, 2017
Understanding the real cost of protectionism
Does Donald Trump know that one American company might be "destroying" more American jobs than China is?
Commentary / World Jan 24, 2017
Is Baseball Hall of Fame a museum or a shrine?
If Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the hall's ethic — that real success must be honorably achieved.
Commentary / World Jan 18, 2017
Trump is the water beetle of American politics
Trump's feral cunning in manipulating the masses is instinctive, and his presidential term will be as novel as his campaign was.
Commentary / World Jan 9, 2017
Obama's unforced errors on foreign policy
When U.S. President Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson's embittering foreign policy failure was ...