A More Dangerous World
Why is the race for the Republican presidential nomination shaping up the way it is? On Friday Mitt Romney ended his bid to return to the lists after only three weeks. It’s clear why he got out: the...
View ArticleSpring Hopes
The news seems uniformly awful. US relations with Israel are at a historic low ebb after the elections there. Another ugly election is coming up in May, in the United Kingdom. NATO is planning...
View ArticleSauce for the Gander
The early stages of the presidential campaign are unfolding as expected. Jeb Bush is irritating his party’s right wing by periodically praising President Obama. Otherwise he remains as elusive as...
View ArticleThe Two Worlds of Paul Ryan
It’s hard to think about the United States’ place in the world without maintaining an underlying sense of its government’s direction. Hillary Clinton presumably clinched the Democratic Party...
View ArticleAgainst Krugman
Readers have wondered when I might back off the hunch I voiced a year ago, and reiterated as recently as December, that Jeb Bush still could eventually win the presidency. Here goes: Bush clearly no...
View ArticleEnd of the Line
When former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced his candidacy in January 2015, I was enthusiastic, largely on foreign policy grounds. It seemed he might champion the sort of conservative internationalism...
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