Douglas Wilson is so good he has to be quoted in detail: Take the vilest atheist you ever heard of. Imagine yourself sitting at his bedside shortly before he passes away. He says, following Sinatra, “I did it my way.” And then he adds, chuckling, “Got away with it too.” In our thought experiment, the… Continue reading

Boris Berezovsky on the state of denial in Russia today: It is a well-known historical fact that the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany constituted a replacement of Nazi oppression with Communist enslavement for Eastern European countries – an enslavement that lasted for 45 years, far longer than Nazism. Therefore, the defeat that Putin’s Russia… Continue reading

Michael Barone: Today’s 21-year-old was 3 when the Berlin Wall came down; his or her parents were born well after World War II. Unlike people who lived through the experience of 1914-1918 or 1939-1945, they have no reason to draw the conclusion that everything can-and sometimes does-go terribly wrong. It is tempting to turn your… Continue reading

You know…six years is not a long time to someone in their 30s or 40s. You remember holding the little girl, giving her a bottle, changing her pampers. Next thing you know, she’s doing stuff like this:

It’s only round two, but I sense already that Christopher Hitchens (to my surprise and disappointment) doesn’t have the belly for it.