Obama’s core ideology? To be an Anticolonialist President Obama has been doing some strange things, and even his supporters are beginning to wonder what he is up to. He reduces America’s nuclear arsenal while doing virtually nothing to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. He seems reflexively anti-Israel even though Israel is America’s main [...]
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Forbes Cover: How He Thinks
How Obama Thinks: The Root of Obama’s Big Problem with Business Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government’s control [...]
God Knows Why Faith is Thriving
From the San Francisco Chronicle, October 2007. This article appeared on page E-3. A group of leading atheists is puzzled by the continued existence and vitality of religion. As biologist Richard Dawkins puts it in his new book “The God Delusion,” faith is a form of irrationality, what he terms a “virus of the mind.” Philosopher [...]
A Christian Foundation
Originally published in USA Today. Popular efforts to tuck Christianity neatly aside as a footnote to this country’s history and to deliver a secular society will fail. Why? Because the faith is inextricably tied to our values, our institutions and even modern science. We seem to be witnessing an aggressive attempt by leading atheists to [...]
Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite or Consummate Statesman?
This article was originally published in the April 2005 issue of American History Magazine. Most Americans — including most historians — regard Abraham Lincoln as the nation’s greatest president. But in recent years powerful movements have gathered, both on the political right and the left, to condemn Lincoln as a flawed and even wicked man. For both [...]
President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War
This article was originally published in October 2003 issue of American History Magazine. Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan ordered American troops to invade Grenada and liberate the island from its ruling Marxist dictator. By itself this would have been an insignificant military action: Grenada is a tiny island of little geopolitical significance. But in reality the liberation [...]
10 things to celebrate: Why I’m an anti-anti-American
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle. America is under attack as never before — not only from terrorists but also from people who provide a justification for terrorism. Islamic fundamentalists declare America the Great Satan. Europeans rail against American capitalism and American culture. South American activists denounce the United States for “neocolonialism” and oppression. [...]
Sell USA’s Virtue to Muslim world
Originally published in USA Today. There is more to the current turbulence in the Middle East than the Arab grievances against Israel. Behind it is a broader intellectual critique of America and the West that is widely shared — and a more potent fuel for terrorism than just the Israeli issue. So far, the U.S. [...]
In Praise of American empire
Originally published in the Christian Science Monitor. America has become an empire, a fact that Americans are reluctant to admit and that critics of the United States regard with great alarm. Since the end of the cold war, the US has exercised an unparalleled and largely unrivaled influence throughout the world economically, politically, culturally, [...]
The Moral Conundrum of Success
Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Long accustomed to being short of money, many professors and administrators are living rather well these days. Academic conferences, which once featured disheveled, sorry-looking folk, are now frequently high-class affairs, featuring speakers and even attendees in designer suits. College towns which once rattled with beat-up old Volkswagons [...]
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