More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland’s bids for independence combined.
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times – and our own wars.
We’ve all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein – and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
Events don’t happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends – and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don’t usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.