Poles and Catholicism are in a lifelong marriage, one that will last even after the memory of John Paul the Great fades – even if, like most things Polish, the marriage is likely to be a stormy one.

Today's Poland is prosperous and stable. But that is not the normal condition of Poland -- and it won't persist unless Poland, Europe and America cooperate to keep it that way.

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, with six members of the Supreme Court present, President Obama famously attacked the Court’s Citizen’s United decision. At the center of Obama’s criticism was his completely erroneous contention that the decision opened the floodgates to foreign corporate spending in U.S. election campaigns.

As Operation Iraqi Freedom grinds relentlessly toward Baghdad,French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair watch its progress with the uneasy apprehension that their own fates hinge on its result.Both leadersare engaged in a ferocious duel for the highest possible stakes in European and world politics.

The U.S. should strongly discourage the development of the EU as a military power, urge the winding down of its fledgling Rapid Reaction Force, and insist that NATO be the only serious European defense force.

Euro-integration is an American project, one the U.S. has supported at every stage right up to President George W. Bush's recent speech in Berlin.

John O'Sullivan's Bradley Lecture.