Rise of the Surveillance State

Another week, another dreadful column from Anne Applebaum, this time about why we can never ever ever ever leave Iraq. Applebaum, along with Cathy Young and a few others, occupies a weird niche in establishment punditry: as yawn-inducing in her analysis as David...

Maybe this is why they're supporting a candidate that promises to bring them home? American soldiers describe the constant stress of living in a war zone, voice their frustrations over the politics with the war strategy in Washington, and are seen as they watch an...

While politicos fight about what the troops want, a majority of the money that members of the military donated to Republican candidates for President went to the most antiwar candidate: Ron Paul. Analyzing the latest finance reports, The Spin Factor broke down the...

Christopher Hitchens disses Lord Black, though his bile, the product of a feud two decades ago, seems tempered by his gradual convergence with the Borg ("I remember running into a very conservative gentleman in the corridors of the American Enterprise Institute a year...

From an account (in The New Republic) of a Hillary for President rally in New Hampshire: "One last footnote: The Clintons had no more enthusiastic cheerleaders than a small clutch of people who cheered them deliriously while mysteriously waving around a foreign flag....

A great letter from a reader: "Upon reading your article, 'The Politico’s Brazen Lies About Ron Paul', I came upon the idea that what the American political world needs is a website where us simpletons can keep track of who the bad guys are. I am not trying to be...

Documented in a series of in-depth interviews by The Nation with 50 combat veterans of the Iraq war from across the US.

The Republican smear machine is revving up its motors, getting ready to launch a typically vicious campaign against Ron Paul, the only real threat to their death-grip on the GOP. Since the first assault, a piece by Ryan Sager in the New York Sun, failed -- the charges...

It's been a busy week, and it's going to be an even busier weekend: I'll be speaking in Mountain View, California, this Saturday. Go here for information. I've also been blogging up a storm at Taki's Top Drawer -- go here, here, and here, for starters. Oh, and here's...