Nir Rosen describes the remarkable progress U.S. social workers are making in Iraq:In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family...

He said it:Israel may be the Jewish state, but as American Jews, it is not our country. It belongs to us only insofar as we share a spiritual connection to it with Jews the world over. If you're planning to make aliyah in the near future, go ahead and make Israel your...

From Reason's other Young comes another courageous defense of the Bush administration: Iraq always was essential to the anti-terrorism battle precisely because victory there was regarded as necessary to transform societies from where terrorists, spawned by suffocating...

How does Cathy Young make a living writing crap like this? What I most dislike about Reason is not so much that they take non-libertarian positions on occasion (what's up with hiring Jonathan Rauch?), but the general uselessness of many of the articles. In this one,...

As for the death of this old bat, let's just say it ain't gonna ruin my birthday or the high I'm still on after my alma mater shocked #1 Stanford. But it raises a question some folks will call me an anti-Semite for asking: What in the hell are we doing in the middle...

I am so sorry I missed the Eric Alterman episode! I've been trying to catch at least part of Miller's show every evening--anticipating the moment when Miller finally breaks down and slips constant guest David Horowitz some tongue on live TV--but I somehow missed...

Scroll down for my exchange with Steven Horwitz. That's all for today.

Murray Polner reminds us of the continuing relevance of William Graham Sumner, particularly his 1898 essay "The Conquest of the United States by Spain." Some choice snippets from Sumner: It has become almost a doctrine with us that patriotism requires that we should...

Keep those filthy big-spending liberals from giving WMDs to the kids and STDs to the Islamofascists. Or something like that. Make checks payable to the Boy Bombardier.

As Jonah Goldberg asks on today's Corner, "Who woulda thunk it was possible to like him more? Check these out." (I've changed the title and link, of course, but note that his link and mine are to the same Web site. Let's put all of this "appeasement"-screeching in its...