There are some similarities between the seizure of the U.S. embassy and the attack against the British embassy, and history indeed seems to be repeating itself.

The burning of effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Salman Rushdie by Muslim students in Pakistan should remindthe Westof the importance of defendingits cultural symbols.

The elites' excusing of tyranny has real-world consequences, as it leads to appeasement and weakness. The intellectual class that had come to regard Qaddafi as a more or less normal ruler with potentially reasonable or liberal inclinations has no such excuse, and their self-deception has had the consequence of enabling the policy incoherence of our political leaders.

Free speech does not absolve anyone from professional incompetence.

President Bush will fly to Europe on Thursday as he makes his way to an emotional D-Day celebration, hoping that memories of mutual sacrifices during the Normandy invasion 60 years ago will help heal recent allied rifts over Iraq.

The National Security Council realizes that conspiracieson pre-Iraq war planning are untrue, but they have rewarded those responsible for leaks by changing policy as a result of falsehood.

The complete text of the March 2006 Bradley Lecture presented by David Gelernter.

While various people are talking about tracking down "dead-beat dads" or reestablishing orphanages or doing something to slow the rate of divorce--all remedies for marital failure--very little attention is being paid to what makes for marital success.