Attempts at austerity and deleveraging in Europe have converted an economic problem into a political dilemma, with leftist governments rising against Germany's austerity-laced rescue packages. Germany now faces a tough economic decision that will involve choosing between a breakup of the current euro system and a movement toward a common fiscal policy in Europe.

Are the fascists about to take over France?

Conflict seems likely between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government, but there is reason to hope that things will not deteriorate too far, too fast.

There will always be anti-Americanism in Europe. On gun control, the death penalty, genetically modified foods, the size of the state and the role of religion, the two continents are at loggerheads. But there is no point in exacerbating the split with my-way-or-the-highway rhetoric.

The results of the 2010 elections fail somehow to account for the continued difficulties that Republicans (at all levels of government) have had after past wave elections.

The "Buy America" provision in the recent stimulus package constitutes dangerous protectionism.

Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. The failure of Western experts to anticipate the Soviet Union's collapse may in part be attributed to a sort of historical revisionism -- call it anti-anti-communism -- that tended to exaggerate the Soviet regime's stability and legitimacy.

Was the Goldwater campaign of 1964 was a major loss for conservatism or an invaluable time of forging principles?