A personal preamble
I have long been a Thomas Jefferson fanatic. While, like all sensible Americans, I have a sneaking respect for Alexander Hamilton, and am aware that we live
I well remember my days as a student at St Andrews, Scotland one of the true pioneer institutions studying terrorism in a systematic way. One of my senior tutors, a
The weather here in Washington is unseasonably cold, with the temperature hovering around zero. Yet people on the street seem cheerful, with the sound of Merry Christmas ringing down Massachusetts
After the flurry surrounding the rout of the realists and the solidification of the neoconservative hold on the administration, things have really died down here in Washington.
The Democrats
My last column described the perfervid preelection mood in Washington and sketched the likely consequences of a Bush triumph for the Republican party in these terms:
A Bush victory
The two presidential candidates are locked in a death grip.
The Zogby Poll (my favourite) interviews a thousand people a day the month before the election. It combines the last
Im as tired as I remember being as an adult. The kind of groundin fatigue that not even a good nights sleep can erase. Too many late
My God, he took my advice. I know I can never prove that John Kerry, in his darkest hour, overwhelmed by advisers offering bad counsel, talking about Vietnam rather than
Dear Senator Kerry,
Over the past several weekends I have been forced to read countless (unsolicited) letters of advice given to you in the Washington opinion pages. As none of
A popular joke in Washington goes like this: how can you tell the Republican convention from that of the Democrats? The Republicans cannot clap in time to the music.
Political
While Washington is not Paris, things do slow down here in August. We are in between conventions, Congress is out of session, as the members scurry home ahead of the
A friend who lives in London spoke to me recently about the column I am about to write. Its always hardest writing about something you care about passionately, he
