Via Matt Yglesias, here's John Edwards' position on the withdrawal-from-Iraq question: When we say complete withdrawal we mean it. No more war. No combat troops in the country. Period. But we're also being honest. If John Edwards is president, we're not going to leave...

I kind of feel sorry for Andrew Sullivan for a lot of reasons: having to explain his past pro-war vehemence in light of the disaster unfolding in Iraq can't be easy, even for a champion evader. And having to live down his more outrageous bouts of hysteria, such as...

Peace activists are always hearing how our military is fighting overseas in order to preserve our right to dissent at home, but look what happened to Professor Walter F. Murphy, emeritus of Princeton University, when he tried to board a plane (via War and Piece): On 1...

Reason magazine continues to discredit both itself, and libertarianism, by featuring its Middle East "expert"-in-residence Michael Young, a minor chord in the neocon echo chamber. Reason, Young, and the racist swamp of "Little Green Footballs" -- what a ménage à...

Is Bill Maher never going to go away? That he ought to was proved definitively the other day during his interview with Rep. Ron Paul, who recently announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination. Senor Maher claims to be a "libertarian" -- but doesn 't...

Tony Blair rails against the shameless parading of the 15 captured Brits with his usual vigor, but what really takes the air out of his rhetoric is the alacrity with which the detainees have turned against their own government. It’s been less than a full week since...

Aren't you sick of "antiwar" activists who are nothing but shills for the Democratic party? Because I sure as hell am. I've written about the Democratic "antiwar" legislation that recently passed the House, slated for a quick veto by the White House, and I note the...

In my review of Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism I mentioned the Cato Institute's online symposium, which utilizes the book as a take-off point for a discussion about the libertarian movement in general, and I note here the posting of Virginia Postrel's...

Here is Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon bigwig Bernard Lewis received an award and made a speech defending the Crusades as the first phase of the necessary struggle...

National Review editor Rich Lowry on Bill Clinton’s perjury: Let’s concede that sexual harassment law is too broad and that the Jones suit was quite weak, that ideally there shouldn’t have been an independent counsel waiting to pounce on Clinton’s crimes, that...