Richard Kostelanetz

The traditional Israeli response to, say, the assassination of its Olympic team or the kidnapping of a soldier has been selective retaliation by its intelligence …

Now that Fidel Castro has ceded power to his younger brother Raul, we realize the tragedy that he never got to write his memoirs about …

Remembering Paul Goodman’s declaration that the state should not be in the business of licensing sex (i.e., “marriage/l), let me suggest that it also shouldn’t …

The Bushian short-sighted miscalculation has been tax cuts favoring the rich while running up deficits that will eventually need to be paid off not by …

I’ve written before that elements within the American government have sometimes defused a threatening minority by legally prosecuting unto death advocates who mayor may not …

The world seems divided into those who regard such terms as race and diversity as important and those who blithely let them go by. Most …

Those of us who recall exposes of the historic financial acumen of the Roman Catholic Church remain puzzled why it allowed a pope to stay·in …

Recalling the statistic that the number of stockholders in America exceeds the number of employees (allowing for overlap), consider the great political achievement of Eliot …

James Carville said on talk radio that most Americans describe themselves as “socially liberal and economically conservative.” If that’s true, why isn’t the Libertarian Party …

Can I be alone in thinking that the plodding pace of the prosecution of Saddam Hussein, imprisoned for over two years now, reflects a reluctance …