President George W Bush’s bad week may yet prove the administration’s great turning point. None of the reverses need be fatal; each contains an opportunity to move back onto a more successful path. Everything depends on the wisdom, self-discipline, and perspective of the President.
Friday’s indictments of Lewis Libby are one opportunity. For while Mr   more

The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq;
By George Packer;
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 480 pages, $26
Last week, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, delivered a blistering attack on the Iraq war and the Bush administration. To strengthen his case against the President, Wilkerson cited a new book, The Assassins’ Gate by George Packer.
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There’s one way, anyway, that Harriet Miers really is like Antonin Scalia: When Ronald Reagan named the very conservative Scalia to the Supreme Court in 1986, the conservative judge won endorsements from unexpected quarters, including Mario Cuomo, the very liberal governor of New York. For Cuomo, what mattered most about Scalia were not his ideas,   more

Somewhere, T.E. Lawrence is smiling. The man now mythologized as “Lawrence of Arabia” was the British officer who helped recruit the sheiks of Arabia to the Allied side in the First World War. After the war, Lawrence accused the victorious British and French of breaking faith with the Arabs, shortchanging and cheating them.
Lawrence died   more

“It’s not a rebellion, sire: It’s a revolution.” With those words, the duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt broke the news to Louis XVI that the Bastille had fallen. Looking back on the events of the past eight days, I wonder whether the Bush White House does not feel the same way.
The President’s decision to   more

Monday was the day of the great conservative mutiny against George W. Bush. It is hard to overstate the shock that the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt the President’s supporters, both in Washington and through the country.
John Podhoretz, for example, is the author of a strongly positive 2004   more

As reported by the National Post in a Wednesday editorial, the op-ed page of the Globe and Mail recently published a column by National Council on Canada-Arab Relations executive director Mazen Chouaib. In the column, Mr. Chouaib vigorously criticized the National Post and its parent company which he believes harbour an anti-Muslim   more