The Chosen

LAST WEEK, the Bush administration adopted a new approach to the crisis with Iran over Tehran's pursuit of uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice offered to join the negotiations with Iran (heretofore conducted by the E.U. Three--France, Germany and Britain) on…

WILL THE UNITED STATES declare war on the Islamic Republic of Iran? For months, this question has been the theme of diplomatic and public discourse--with horror usually expressed at the idea. But it now seems that we have this backwards. For the import of the letter that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,…

In Praise of Public Life

AFTER YOU HIT A DOG, you pet it." This is how an unnamed adviser to George W. Bush explained (to the New York Times) the governor's revised and softened appraisal of the vices of his party, after howls of protest from conservatives greeted Bush's recent speech to the Manhattan Institute. The dog…