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The Boston Globe With Congress’s recent rejection of the nuclear test ban treaty and an upcoming World Trade Organization meeting that’s already causing a storm, it’s useful to remind ourselves that there are two faces of nationalism. The negative face turns away from global responsiblities. The positive one embraces domestic ones. Both give priority to […]

The administration is trying to move a global trade agenda that was blocked two years ago in Seattle by protesters in the streets and skepticism in the Third World. This time, the World Trade Organization talks have been moved to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, a despotic oil emirate where protesters, foreign and domestic, […]

In the last few weeks we’ve heard endless reiterations of the phrase about the world never being the same again. And who can really deny it? Anyone looking at the scene where the World Trade Center used to be, or trying to imagine what madness would drive human beings to such acts, could hardly think […]

In “No more jury trials for terrorists,” Townhall.com columnist Michelle Malkin argues for secret military trials to bring terrorism suspects to justice; here is what she had to say about those who favor due process: This is the kind of “justice” the American apologists for terrorism seek. They believe all will be right with the […]

Evan Wolfson, Director of the Marriage Project at the Lambda Legal and Education Defense Fund, discusses the right-wing war on gays and lesbians and the prospects for same-sex marriage. Platt: There were two ballot initiatives in this election cycle banning same-sex marriage — in Nebraska and Nevada. As you know, the initiatives passed easily. How […]

Campus speech codes have been discredited in recent years, and talk about political correctness has waned, but self-righteous intolerance of dissent remains distressingly common among supposedly progressive students on liberal campuses. It surfaced most recently in efforts to prevent student newspapers from disseminating a now notorious political ad by right wing provocateur David Horowitz denouncing […]

“When you’re in this type of conflict, when you’re at war, civil liberties are treated differently.” — Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss) The ACLU’s phone is ringing off the hook with questions about what the recent disasters in Washington and New York will mean for a free society. People stare and point at the […]

At the height of the Cold War, the United States argued that the truth would set people free. In fact, many scholars have attributed the growth of democracy in some foreign countries precisely to the free flow of information. We have touted the impact of the Internet on China and Russia because that information flow […]