My Favorite Republican
February 14, 2011 | Eisenhower's farewell address sounds like a speech not merely from another era but from another planet.
Articles by Donald Kaul
American History Requires Study, not Plastic Surgery
February 7, 2011 | The Constitution, like Huckleberry Finn, is in many ways a reflection of its time.
Roadmap to Disaster
January 31, 2011 | Republicans want to rip the heart out of the future and bury it at the intersection of crumbling highways and a falling-down bridge to nowhere.
Wanted: 21st-Century Gun Laws for 21st-Century Weapons
January 24, 2011 | Life seldom imitates Clint Eastwood movies. Even when it does, you rarely get to be Clint.
The Right to Bear Arms, Even if You’re Nuts
January 17, 2011 | Where else can a certifiable loony who looks like Charlie Manson's creepy cousin walk into a gun store and buy a semi-automatic pistol that shoots 30 rounds in just a few seconds?
Perfect: The Enemy of the Happy
January 10, 2011 | Wouldn't be terrible if we had a great president and we didn't notice?
America the Exceptional
January 3, 2011 | Surely the greatest country on earth would have the leading educational system in the world, but we don't.
GOP: Man of the Year
December 27, 2010 | The Republicans hit on the strategy of acting as though they'd won the 2008 elections.