Opinions - listed by subject
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Recent:
McCain, Palin and Demagoguery (Oct 8, 2008)
Military experience and political wisdom (Jul 23, 2008)
Liberty (Jul 13, 2008)
President Bush and Moral Relativism (Apr 17, 2008)
A President, Telephone Calls and National Security (Mar 30, 2008)
Understanding War (Dec 25, 2007)
History, from Ancient to Modern:
Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
Victor Davis Hanson and World War I
Murders and the Communist Manifesto
Churchill's Pearl Harbor Warning
Japan, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
War and Presidents Truman and Johnson
Credit for the Fall of Communism
The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees
Link: On Andrew Roberts, by Jacob Weisberg (Mar 28, 2007)
Link: review of the same Roberts book by the Guardian (Oct 1, 2006)
Morality, Science and Philosophy
Know Thyself: Association and Differentiation
Fact, History and Norman Mailer
Morality, History and Democracy
Moral Equivalence and Timothy McVeigh
Attitude
Ingmar Bergman and Revenge (Aug 2, 2007)
The Bell Curve, Nationality and Race
Measure, Will Power and Pomposity (Sep 26, 2007)
Iraq:
Liberation versus Iraqi Sovereignty: Mistakes, April to September 2003
Opinion and Iraq (Sep 21, 2007)
Strategy for Iraq (Sep 12, 2007)
Condoleezza Rice, History and Iraq
The Iraq War, Colonel MacGregor (Feb 2, 2007)
The Iraq War (Nov18, 2006)
War in General:
War and Capitalism (Oct 20, 2007)
A War of Civilizations
No War of Civilizations (Jul 31, 2007)
Politics:
McCain, Palin and Demagoguery (Oct 8, 2008)
False Symmetry (Sep 17, 2008)
Hagee, McCain and History Methodology
Dirty Politics and Guilt by Association (May 14, 2008)
Horowitz, Institutions and Change (Oct 7, 2007)
Choice and the U.S. Constitution
Big Tent Politics (2006)
Nonsense about Whether You Should Vote
Conflict, Religious and Political
Miscellaneous Ahistorical Stuff: