That deliberative process means vigorous disagreements that can question the very legitimacy of ideas and policies--but not the legitimacy of the people with whom one disagrees.

If experience is anything to go by, the Marines who misbehaved in that video will be disciplined and punished—while those who are trying to exploit those images to undermine their mission never will be.

What exactly do we celebrate on Veterans Day? To be sure, we mean to honor the brave men and women, living and dead, who have fought America’s battles, past and present. But honor them how, and for what? About these matters, we lack a clear national answer.

In all times and places, “Death before dishonor!” has been the motto of those who have cared more for honor than for life itself, and who have performed daring exploits in honor’s name. Until now.

In today’s Western culture, writes James Bowman in Honor: A History (Encounter...

The Democrats are taking us down the wrong road.

Our current behavior only makes the ultimate confrontation with Iran more difficult and likely more violent than it need be.

The older Iranian generation, which led the revolution of 1979, along with the sons and daughters of the revolution, chose the commemoration of Hussein Ibn Ali's revolt against injustice to protest the unjust regime in Tehran.

All of this preemptive appeasement inevitably weakens the forces of democratic revolution in the Middle East and elsewhere, as it greatly cheers the tyrants.