Medvedev’s speech: breakthrough or decoy?Russia’s president — that would be the guy who isn’t Putin — gave a truly remarkable speech to the country’s parliament this...
One brave manEven Nicolas Sarkozy’s lonely act of defiance wasn’t enough to stop the massacre at Tiananmen: The NYT explains what this is about...
Dept. of novel argumentsChris Selley noticed this one, from Rick Salutin’s column today: Actually, I’m struck by how the rest of the paragraph doesn’t...
Generals, diplomats, politicians and troops in AfghanistanLeaked news that Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, is urging President Barack Obama to think twice about...
Afghanistan: Debate on demandColleague Coyne and I were in Halifax on Tuesday night debating this Afghanistan business. Our colleagues at CPAC have archived...
Thoughts about thinking politiciansWhenever we seriously consider a political leader—or, for that matter, any public figure—one of the inevitable problems is to...
"The American court got it miserably wrong"The New York Times upholds the quaint notion that the protection of law should be extended even to the innocent, in this case a...
Natynczyk gets it right: out of Kandahar, full stop. But what (or where) next?Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk just told CBC’s Evan Solomon that he’s started doing what’s required to pull...
Coyne v. Wells: Tuesday nightAndrew and I are in Halifax tonight to debate Canada’s Afghanistan deployment with a sterling roster of guests. We’ll see you at...
By-electionsIt doesn’t help to parse these things too closely, although Brian Topp remains a champion on that front. By-elections could hardly...