Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.