When Bill Bennett, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and theologian Michael Novak go to the synagogue, it’s not to read the Torah. They’re going there to make a speech.

That’s what Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Forty percent of the registered voters in Afghanistan are women, and they’re beginning to move into the private sector.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don’t even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It’s...

John Paul Sartre became a hero in literature, philosophy, sociology and political science even though his popularity largely depended on his politics, and he was wrong on the most important issues of his time, championing...

Americans always respond when a president calls them, as John F. Kennedy did in his inaugural address, to defend freedom.

Fame may last for only 15 minutes, in Andy Warhol’s famous calculation, but it arrives quickly and requires instant attention, lest it vanish before it can be fully exploited.

Must an aerobics instructor be thin? A tailor make the best-dressed lists? A cosmetic saleswoman be pretty?

America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with...

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best...

We know all of us will be scrambling for some time. We just can’t tell quite yet how bad it will be,

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

Cold feet are often symptomatic of a legitimate intuition that you may be heading for the wrong place at the wrong time.

A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

It’s not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men,.

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

Condoleezza Rice insists that all she wants be is the best secretary of state she can be, and can’t imagine running for president. Perhaps. But a lot of other people have no trouble imagining it....

Trashy private lives of the stars is a given today, and scandal causes hardly a ripple of disapproval. Digitalized characters can be created with neither moral nor mortal concern, and best of all can be...

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France.

Everybody’s looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.

Getting out the Beautiful Women vote is supposed to be a nonpartisan exercise, but there’s a decidedly blue-state cast to the endeavor.

The only difference between McDonalds customers and the dinner crowd is that the latter dine on tablecloths. The powerful are as likely to be as portly as the plebes.

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point...

Rushing willy-nilly into the future without giving deep thought to the influences of biotechnology in the way we treat each other, and the impact it makes on social behavior, would be foolish indeed.

Hitler’s appeal to greed and sloth, to increase German prosperity without requiring Germans to work for it, led into the Holocaust because confiscating Jewish property seemed to make sense to the greedy.

It’s the liberals, not the conservatives, who reveal sloppy and cliched thinking now. They hang out with like-minded politically correct dogmatists, rarely bumping against anyone who doesn’t look and sound just like themselves.

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

Rape is the most bankable event in our culture, more valuable than murder and a lot more valuable than mere mayhem. Jessica Lynch has no memory of being raped; Iraqi doctors at the hospital insist...

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer.

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

It’s long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

It’s a cliche of punditry that Republicans are the Daddy Party and the Democrats are the Mommy Party. The metaphors are out of date. We must look at the Republicans as the Adult Party and...

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they’re accelerating their numbers in upper...

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

There’s more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler’s fascism but won’t examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

You still can’t find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.