I recently sent my last kid off for her senior year of college. There are rituals to such moments, and because dad-confessions are not among…

Today, America’s foreign policy is a shambles.  Its primary features are (1) a perpetual war on terror, and (2) the seemingly inevitable march into a…

Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I…

The Obama years have been a boom time for America's weapons makers. Since 2009, the United States has approved arms deals worth some $200 billion—more…

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In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercised power and control over its residents, George Orwell…