online archive

The war on terror, political ideologies, law and the courts and politics

New York, yours, mine and theirs: In 9/11 politics, it’s the “I was there” camp versus the “Get a life” advocates. Hawks and Hogs: Why no one dares attack the waste in defense spending. Know your neocon rhetoric? An 11-quote quiz on the Bush Administration's war of words. Top ten movies Human Events would like to screen in US Embassies (and part 2). Guerrillas in our midst: The Justice Department goes after "freedom fighters", and rankles conservatives. A moratorium wired to stop the war: A new Iraq Moratorium effort will leverage grassroots and online activism. Martin Woollacott welcomes Paddy Ashdown's intelligent survey of recent western military operations, Swords and Ploughshares. From HNN, a review of Cullen Murphy’s Are We Rome? An excerpt from Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh. Amitai Etzioni on illiberal Muslim moderates as the global swing vote.

From Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead reviews That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present by Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs. An interview with Jed Babbin, author of In the Words of Our Enemies. A review of The Idea That is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values in a Dangerous World by Anne-Marie Slaughter. From Jewcy, Rise of the Faux-cialists: Three poseurs — George Galloway, Hugo Chavez, Tariq Ali — who would have Marx spinning in his grave (plus their real-deal counterparts). A review of Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service. Paul Johnson on how greed is safer than power-seeking. It's time to dismantle the conservative dogma: inequality is not natural.

David Cole reviews Richard Posner's Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. An excerpt from A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald. Bush to Congress: Drop Dead: A new report shows how the president gets to sign a law and kill it too. Testimonial Two-Step: Dahlia Lithwick on mastering the intricate dance of congressional testimony. Impartial arts: An expert witness’ credible court report and impartial testimony stand between winning a case or a miscarriage of justice. The latest Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty will give prosecutors huge latitude to pick jurors who enthusiastically embrace capital punishment. Bad Execution: Lethal injection can cause undue suffering to the condemned. What's to be done? You Can't See Why on an fMRI: What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense.

Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, on winning hearts and minds: Why rational appeals are irrational if your goal is winning elections. Dumbocracy in America: An interview with Bryan Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. A review of Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America by Phil Kent. What's Up With Kansas? How the Right Wing lost control of the Cyclone State. Small-Government Schmoozing: Scenes from a libertarian journalism conference at the Institute for Humane Studies. A Day at the Right-Wing Think Tank: An interview with Andrew Cohen, author of The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are.