Publications

  GW: Are there going to be circumstances where the initial reaction of the American public is, “We don’t want…

  GW: Let’s wind up with Cuba. Describe the best endgame and best outcome there, and what the United States…

  GW: If a presidential candidate, preparing his stump speech, asked you for a brief summary statement against the isolationist…

Pope John Paul II did more than offer a striking tour d’horizon of international life on the threshold of the…

Mencken: A Life. By Fred Hobson. Random House. 650 pp. $35. H. L. Mencken, My Life as Author and Editor….

It has been muddled by the academicians, coarsened by the politicians, corrupted by the international sans-culotterie, and debased by dictators…

In all of this, there are welcome signs of progress in what Winston Churchill once called “the hard march of…

“Ever has it been thus,” veteran U.N.-watchers may be thinking. But there does seem to be something new, or at…

Meanwhile, as this truly striking example of “cultural imperialism” unfolds throughout the U.N. system, the idea of “universal and inalienable…

What can be done about these threats to the classic Anglo-American understanding of “universal and inalienable human rights”—which is to…

1. In the days when he represented the United States at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva, my friend…

Gargantuan international conferences replete with diplomats, “international civil servants,” various “nongovernmental organization” (NGO) representatives, and the world press have been…