The Decline and Fall of Victorian Values

Riots Reveal to World How Britain Has Lost Its Values, Yorkshire Post, August 31, 2011. "As the liberal media are always eager to remind us – because it promotes moral relativism – Britain before the Victorians was a drunken and disorderly place. The Victorians couldn’t solve this problem completely, but they did enough to recast the British character, and to make it more than a stereotype. In modern Britain, this Victorian order has been broken down."

The Flaws of the Land Mines Ban

The Flaws of the Ottawa Convention, National Security Policy Proceedings, Spring 2011. "The Ottawa Convention looks likely to become another ABM Treaty or International Criminal Court: a commitment made by one administration that—because it poses dangers to our security and our sovereignty—will force a sensible future administration to spend a good deal of time, energy, and political capital setting it right. Indeed, if we are not careful now, it will become a commitment from which any future administration will find it very difficult to escape."

Government Of, By, and For Baldrick

Charge of the Light Brigade Shows How U.S. Gets It Wrong, Yorkshire Post, August 1, 2011. "Governments are far from cunning. In that, they are like most everyone, except moreso. The problem is not that people in government are particularly stupid, or more evil than normal. It is that they have more power than anyone else, and they think they know what to do with it. The light bulb we need most isn’t a fluorescent. It’s the one that goes on when people realize that government can’t do it all, and shouldn’t try to."