Robert Zubrin’s powerful critique of antihumanism...

Determining whether or not immigrants, including those brought here as children, truly understand and accept the core principles and values of our political order is the most serious challenge we face in dealing with 11 million illegal immigrants...

Obama’s presidency has failed miserably, but it has accomplished one thing: it has revealed for all to see the lethal pathologies of progressive ideology...

The timing of this paltry [agreement to “quite soon” allow IAEA inspectors to search for any evidence that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program] suggests that the Iranians are once again rope-a-doping the U.N. and the West...

After nearly four years in office, the tinsel and cardboard persona of Barack Obama is starting to fall apart...

Very little of liberal thought these days represents anything fresh or new, but rather comprises what Lionel Trilling once reduced conservatism to: “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas”...

In yet another act of election-year cynicism, Barack Obama has just announced, “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married”...

For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story...

Ideological illusions have for decades fooled the EUrophiles into thinking that they could speed full steam ahead to their utopian destination, a United States of Europe that could rival the United States for global power and influence...

For me, while all these speculations could explain Obama’s personality and behavior, the answer is simpler: he is the perfect embodiment of the politicized, corrupt university...

Of course, when all else fails blame the Jews. But this excuse is a mere pretext, a propaganda tactic for finding Western moral support by exploiting the unsavory anti-Jewish prejudices still lurking in too many Westerners...

Ravi’s conviction has dangerously expanded the already over-broad and subjective statutes against “hate crimes,” which are for the most part based on words and attitudes...

The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Qur’ans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar...

We all know that military action is the only way to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of a state led by religious fanatics with a world-historical mission to wave the banner of Islam over the whole world. Yet the only credible threat of force resides with Israel...

Despite the graphic proof of [Ayatollah Khomeini's] words in the carnage of 9/11, many in the media, politics, and foreign policy establishment still refuse to comprehend the enemy we are facing...

The most recent repudiation of the “democracy delusion” is the arrogant threat made by a member of the Muslim Brothers...

The Kennedy School conference––like the boycott of Israeli academics, one of whose prime movers is Ilan Pappé–– is yet another example that this strategy to destroy Israel by manipulating international opinion has been working...

The 33-year farce of Western appeasement of Iran may be reaching its denouement...

Ibn Warraq’s eloquent defense of Western civilization...

Republicans need to start making a case based on history, the Constitution, and math that Obama’s and the Democrats’ redistributive egalitarian politics is taking this country down the road not just to fiscal ruin, but to the further constriction of our freedom...

The killing of Pearl concentrated much of what Andrew McCarthy calls the “willful blindness” of many in the West to the Islamic roots of the perpetrators’ violence...

The global warming apocalypse and its Elmer Gantry, Al Gore, may have faded from public view lately, but that old-time green religion is still making mischief...

Thirteen months after a Tunisian street-vendor immolated himself and sparked the revolutions in the Middle East dubbed the “Arab Spring,” the bipartisan celebrations that attended those events last year appear premature, if not delusional...

Under Obama Israel has been subjected to the same pressure from her ally, and she would be well advised not to rely overmuch on this administration’s protestations of commitment to her security...

Our failure of imagination that has reduced events in the Middle East to our own historical paradigms and ideals continues to compromise our foreign policy in that region, and endanger our national interests...

From the beginning the committee was political theater designed to create the illusion of action when the will to act is missing. Unfortunately, this perennial bad habit of democracies to pursue short-time interests at the expense of long-term needs is now too dangerous to indulge...

A review of the conservative critic’s latest book...

How the San Joaquin Valley makes modern life possible...

—and how multiculturalism has wrecked it in California...

California’s state university system offers everything but a liberal education...

Daniel Mahoney examines the many distortions of the liberal ideal...

You don’t have to be an economist to see that this idea is nothing more than populist politics, an attempt to exploit class envy and divide Americans in order to divert attention from two and a half years of failed economic policies...

The idea that conflicts between peoples can be resolved by diplomatic negotiation has frequently been a dangerous delusion...It’s long past time that we made policy based on reality instead of on our own delusions...

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet wants the federal government to stop “coddling the super-rich,” as he writes in the New York Times...

That we raise the question at all is a testimony to how thoroughly progressive ideas about governing have permeated our political consciousness...

We need sound principles and principled politicians, but the system in which they work creates the limits to what can be done...

The on-going drama over raising the debt ceiling in the end isn’t about economics and math...What complicates this solution is...the competing ideals and interests of various factions...

On the same day that the U.S. recognized the Libyan rebel Transitional National Council as “the legitimate governing authority for Libya,” in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s words, the New York Times reported that antiaircraft missiles have been plundered from arms depots and were “on the loose in Libya...”

The Democrats’ position in the negotiations to raise the debt limit and deal with runaway government debt can be summarized in one mantric phrase: the rich must “pay their fair share” in taxes...

A people faced with a passionate enemy like terrorist jihadists will find their resolve weakened if they lack a passionate loyalty to the core principles and beliefs that their way of life expresses...

If they want to win in 2012, conservatives need to be confident in the rightness of their beliefs and argue for them passionately as well as rationally...

In fifteen months we will know which cohort of the body politic is larger: those who are willing to let government borrow and spend us into economic decline or worse...or those who can “stand the cure” of our therapeutic disease...

In September 1938 English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, explaining why he was flying to Germany a third time in order to make peace with Germany, recited the old nursery rhyme: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again...

As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language...

The post-mortem revelations of Osama bin Laden’s daily habits have confirmed the orthodox narrative about the al Qaeda chief...

Imprecise, emotionally loaded language usually reflects incompetence or politics...

Yes, the praise President Obama is receiving for authorizing the operation that killed Osama bin Laden is deserved––to a point...

...[U]ntil we stop appeasing the enemy with our groveling rhetoric and our foreign aid, the demise of bin Laden will not do much to convince the Islamists and their supporters that they can never win...

...[T]he mainstream media are getting wrong the significance of President Obama’s release of his actual birth certificate...

Just when you think California can’t get any wackier, the state legislature steps up and proves you wrong...

When people suffering under brutal autocrats and dictators have finally risen up to satisfy the innate human longing for freedom and democracy, we should support these aspirations on moral grounds...

General Petraeus should stick to the job at which he is skilled: destroying the enemy and creating the conditions under which American troops can accomplish their mission and return home. We already have enough flawed analysis coming from politicians...

...[A] highly visible and critically praised Broadway play that will be seen by thousands is met by the insulted church with a shrug, while a solitary act by the leader of an obscure, 50-member, non-denominational congregation triggers lethal violence...

The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry’s recent essay...Apparently, many in Egypt didn’t get Kerry’s idealistic memo...

The current military intervention in Libya by the West has been marketed with the claim that its purpose, as French President Sarkozy put it, is “to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that has forfeited all claim to legitimacy...

The hearings convened by Rep. Pete King...to examine the recruitment of American Muslims as jihadist terrorists revealed all the pathologies of multicultural grievance politics that for decades now has compromised our response to Islamic jihad...

The international order...reminds me of the Spanish proverb about laws: they catch flies and let the hawk go free...The civil war raging in Libya, and the argument over what America’s response should be, illustrate this phenomenon...

Apart from celebratory statements applauding what looks like to us democratic “people’s revolutions” against tyrannous autocrats, the uprisings sweeping across the Muslim Middle East have created great uncertainty for policy-makers as they try to calculate a response...

The showdown between public employee unions and cash-strapped state governments on display in Madison should be bad news for President Obama and the Democrats...

...[As] so many coo, like Shakespeare’s Miranda, “O brave new world, that has such people in’t,” prudence dictates that we respond as Prospero does: “’Tis new to thee...”

...[Some] such statements simplify and distort the complex nature and historical progress of political freedom and the rights it guarantees...

Guests: Laura Huggins, PERC; Greg Zuckerman, WSJ; Bruce Thornton, Hoover; John Fund, American Spectator...

[Interview begins around 12:00]...

GUESTS: Francesco Guerrera, WSJ; Bruce Thornton, Hoover; John Avlon, CNN; Laura Kasinof, NYT...

GUESTS: Adam Nossiter, NYT; Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategies Center; Peter Wonacott, WSJ; Bruce Thornton, Hoover...

Bruce Thornton, author of "The Wages of Appeasement," draws connections between Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama's America...

Bruce Thornton outlines how appeasement continues to make us weak in the eyes of our terrorist enemies...

Bruce Thornton says the U.S. had the Vietnam War won before it went about losing it...

Bruce Thornton characterizes the thinking of Neville Chamberlain, the great appeaser of the 20th century...

From Homer’s Iliad to Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, these five classics make for sublime and delightful beach reading...

Are we a melting pot or a salad bowl?...

Because their citizens choose to spend money on themselves, not on defense...

The vogue of environmentalism stems from two ancient myths disguised today by a thin veil of scientific authority...

For thirty years, America has appeased Iran, setting the stage for the current crisis...

In Egypt, one tyranny begets another...

Good riddance to a bad idea...

Why should we pay for the unprincipled behavior of hostile nations...?

The 2012 presidential election will be a referendum on democracy...

A policy of guilt and flattery will not temper terrorists...

We are blind to the real threat jihadists pose to America...