“Truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit………..truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”–Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard University, June 1978. The death this week of Alexander Solzhenitsyn eliminates one more among the few really significant personalities who, along with Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Lech Walesa, converged […]
Archives for August 2008
Obama in Berlin: Citizen of the World
If John McCain somehow defies the current odds and defeats Barack Obama in November, analysts might look at a particular moment as the turning point. At no time and in no appearance has Obama revealed his worldview more vividly than in his appearance and speech before a reported 200,000 or more during his stop in […]
The Stevens Indictment: A Turning Point for Republicans?
If the indictment of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska doesn’t trigger a major turnaround and a cleansing of Republican Congressional leadership, then they are beyond hope. This guy, Mr. Bridge to Nowhere, is the “poster child” for everything that went wrong with the Revolution of 1994 and the “earmark” culture spawned by the disastrous “K Street Project” that […]
An Idea Whose Time Has Long Passed
“It is hard in this world to do well. It is hard to do good. When I hear a claim that an institution is going to do both, I reach for my wallet. You should too.”–Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, in “Notable & Quotable”, The Wall Street Journal. Former Treasury Secretary Summers reminds us of the […]