Opinions - Listed by Subject

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Recent:

President Bush and Moral Relativism (Apr 17)

A President, Telephone Calls and National Security (Mar 30)

Understanding War (Dec 25, 2007)

Horowitz, Institutions and Change (Oct 7, 2007)

History, from Ancient to Modern:

Starting Over

Abraham in Mesopotamia

Karl Rove versus Protagoras

Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?

Race-mixing and Decline

Heroes and Great Men

Victor Davis Hanson and World War I

The Origins of Fascism

Understanding Germany

"Hitler: the Rise of Evil"

Churchill's Pearl Harbor Warning

Japan, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor

Horror, Hamburg and 9/11

Heroics and Lidice

War and Presidents Truman and Johnson

Tolerance and the Cold War

Credit for the Fall of Communism

The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees

History and Military Bases

Population Growth

Why Did Slavery Last So Long?

Link: On Andrew Roberts, by Jacob Weisberg (Mar 28, 2007)

Link: review of the same Roberts book by the Guardian (Oct 1, 2006)

Philosophy and Science:

Science and Philosophy (Dinesh D'Souza rebuttal added, Oct 27, 2007)

Uncertainty (Oct 14, 2007)

Certainty and Ancient History

Materialism versus Idealism

Inclusion (Oct 20, 2007)

Making Something of Fact (Oct 14, 2007)

Fact, History and Norman Mailer

Good History, Science or Art?

Chance

The Big Bang

Reincarnation (Dec 15, 2007)

Morality

Morality, Empathy, Biology (Oct 27, 2007)

Morality, History and Democracy

Moral Equivalence and Timothy McVeigh

Sins of the Father

Attitude

The Absolutists

Ingmar Bergman and Revenge (Aug 2, 2007)

The Bell Curve, Nationality and Race

Measure, Will Power and Pomposity (Sep 26, 2007)

Pedagogy:

Teaching Speech

Algebra and Redundancy

Web Page Construction

Iraq:

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)

Mistakes, War and Reason

Overreaction

Wisdom and Military Power

Victors and History

Sacrifice

What If?

A War of Civilizations

No War of Civilizations (Jul 31, 2007)

History and Terror

Jihad for a New Caliphate

Politics:

Choice and the U.S. Constitution

What is Freedom?

Big Tent Politics (2006)

Democracy Works

Nonsense about Whether You Should Vote

Anarchism

Conflict, Religious and Political

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