What is government for? Where does it get its powers? What can’t it do? Such questions are often scorned as “academic” by the brisk pragmatists who rush about the corridors of power concocting hare-brained schemes to offend and annoy the public at great cost. But unless you answer them, correctly, your policies and statements are likely to be terribly confused. Click here to read the rest.
With his feeble performance over Syria, even former allies are starting to question Barack Obama’s leadership. Not me. To borrow an insult from Calvin and Hobbes, before I can question it I have to locate it. Click here to read the rest.
Everyone’s fussing over Generation Y, the 18- to 32-year-old “Millennials,” here in huge numbers and ever so special. But having trouble coping. Poor babies. Click here to read the rest.
So here’s the thing about “Redskins” as a sports team name. It’s totally grossly offensive. Click here to read the rest.
In Victorian times they knew what to do when some jungle potentate committed atrocities: Send a gunboat. It worked but, we now realize, was presumptuous, even arrogant. So, in these enlightened multicultural times, we react to Syrian human rights abuses by … um… sending a gunboat. Click here to read the rest.