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One thing you may have noticed, as I did, about the media’s coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week, is how often the President’s grip on reality was called into question. This is nothing new coming from Republicans like Karl Rove, who wrote in The Wall Street Journal (pay wall) that…

Leftie Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post’s amusingly named "Post-Partisan" blog is all in a lather because the wife of the national president of Phi Kappa Psi has written a letter to the fraternity at large, members of which at the University of Virginia have been falsely accused of gang rape by Rolling Stone magazine, telling…

As Charles Lane points out in today’s Washington Post, of the many problems with the American security services revealed by the Senate Intelligence committee report on torture by the CIA, the biggest may be the one that hardly anyone is talking about, namely that security itself has become irrevocably politicized. The CIA, I fear, cannot…

"Know thyself" — in the words of the ancient Greek maxim that was inscribed outside the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and once known to all who received the education of a gentleman. It would have been good advice for Matthew Norman, a columnist for London Independent, who apparently did not receive such an education….

The unseemly squabble among Navy SEALs and the political, legal and military authorities they once served over how Osama bin Laden was killed and who killed him provides a good example of what happens when a country loses its honor culture. The native or reflexive honor is still there, reinforced by the specialized military honor…

Party On . . . Remarkable. An organization rather vaingloriously calling itself "Intelligence Squared" tells me that it is holding, or has held, a debate on the motion: "Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility." Surely, you would think, even intelligence unsquared must be equal to the task of reasoning required to see…