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Seemingly a thousand times “the nattering nabobs of negativism”[1] have correctly observed that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.  The strait’s closure is just one measure of how much worse than the JCPOA Trump’s...

Nicholas Rostow’s new book Proportional to the Mischief - International Law and U.S. Grand Strategy” (Carolina Academic Press, May 1, 2026) is an intelligent, incisive and urgently needed call for the United States to resume formulating and adhering to a grand...

When in the fourth semester at a school regularly rated as equal or higher than Harvard, I got my first A-, I took my three suitemates to HoJos for fried clams and milkshakes, because it was the highest grade any of us had gotten as of that halfway mark in college. ...

Last week I had dinner with a few old friends at one of the score of Manhattan’s wonderful Greek restaurants.  This one, in the Flatiron district of the real World Island.  There, and at all of them, the freshest fish is displayed on hills of ice, then cooked or cured...

SCOTUS justices have seemed unfazed, indeed, contemptuous, of the American public’s plummeting respect for them and the high court.  That defiant disregard is most apparent with Justices Thomas and Alito, though occasionally acknowledged by Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch...

The mandated, but fully embraced, preface is that attempts at violence, like Cole Tomas Allen’s last Saturday night, have no place in our democracy and are antithetical to liberalism and traditional American values.  But what is not only American but pervasively and...