If It Happened Here, What Would They Say?

The German 'Kebab Murders', Heritage Foundation Foundry, December 16, 2011. "What if in America there was a gang of neo-Nazis who, over the course of 14 years, murdered 10 people, nine of them “foreigners” and one a policewoman? What if the gang had also carried out a nail-bomb attack in an immigrant neighborhood? What if immigrant (in this case, Turkish) households and apartments were attacked with Molotov cocktails and spray-painted with Nazi SS symbols?"

Should We Want the Games?

Obama's Olympic Audience, Heritage Foundation Foundry, October 1, 2009. "Today, President Obama flies to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago. So we know that President Obama wants the Olympics. But do the Olympics want the United States?"

The IOC on 9/11

The IOC on 9/11, Contentions, September 30, 2009. "Does President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen tomorrow to lobby for Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics mean that victory is in the bag for the Windy City? Ramesh Ponnuru, for one, believes so, and quite a few others have echoed his thought that the president would hardly dare to go—especially after he said on September 14 that he was too busy to make the trip—and risk looking foolish if Chicago lost. They may be right, but my take is a little different."

A Troubling Meme on the Special Relationship

Sir Michael Howard on the Special Relationship, Contentions, July 18, 2009. "In the latest Times Literary Supplement, Sir Michael Howard, in the course of a largely admiring review of two recent works on Winston Churchill, makes a claim that made me pause. According to Sir Michael, 'The myth of the “special relationship” that Churchill invented and that so many of his admirers on both sides of the Atlantic continue to propagate is briskly demolished. . . . Throughout the war the United States consulted her own interests, as any state is bound to do: and these did not extend to helping Britain either to remain solvent or to retain any part of her empire once the war was over.' I am, I suppose, one of those propagating admirers."

Koh on Durban: We Should Have Gone

Harold Koh on the Durban Process, Contentions, April 21, 2009.

My Panel Presentation on Anglo-American Relations at AEI

Anchor Allies Adrift: Can the United States Depend on Japan and Great Britain?, panel presentation with Dr. Michael Auslin (AEI), with comments by Tom Donnelly (AEI), hosted by Paul Wolfowitz (AEI), March 17, 2009.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

A Clip and Save Summary of Contemporary Liberalism, Contentions, March 2, 2009.

Anti-American Illusions

Illusions of the people who love to hate America, January 14, 2008, Yorkshire Post.