Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
Charles KrauthammerAfter the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
Charles KrauthammerTwo decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.
Charles KrauthammerSome will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normalโindeed, deeply humanโto be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a visionโa creatureโof the purest sweetness?
Charles Krauthammer