With the bursting of the US housing market bubble in 2007-08, praise for Alan Greenspan soon turned into almost universal condemnation. It is all too likely that a similar fate awaits Jean-Claude Trichet as the euro unravels over the next year or two.

President Obama made fundamentally the right decision on Afghanistan--to resource a fully fledged counterinsurgency--and the job ahead is to ensure that his arbitrary date to "end" the war does not become the real endgame.

Former senator Ted Stevens was a good senator for Alaskans, and he did service to the nation.

There are few behaviors more deserving of stigmatization than addiction.

Jeane Kirkpatrick was an enormous force for honesty, liberty, candor, straightforwardness, and sheer moral bravery.

Here is something of a marvel—a book by the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University that is written for the common reader, without footnotes, bibliography, or index.

Snowcomes off a lot better than he's been portrayed in the press and by the perfunctory praise offered by administration officials.

Deepak Lal's new book, In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order, argues that empires have played a decisive role throughout history in providing the political stability essential to economic and social progress. Turning to today's debates over economic and cultural globalization, he concludes that "If the U.S....