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Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead, Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps; And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France, To view this land,…

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Karl Rove spends his last day in the White Houses West Wing today. He departs at the close of business, off to pursue new adventures . . . or perhaps…

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Alberto Gonzales is down to his last two weeks as Attorney General. And the moral rot he has introduced into the internal system of the justice department, something truly unprecedented…

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I detest them, these latest speculators in idealism, the anti-Semites, who clad themselves in Christian-Aryan-bourgeois respectability and who endeavor to agitate the bovine elements of the populace by manipulating the…

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As the march to justice in the Siegelman matter continues, the prosecutors in Montgomery aren’t the only ones suffering from acute anxiety attacks, it seems. Indeed, on the editorial board…

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The House Judiciary Committee and its staff are continuing their preparations for hearings looking into serious irregularities surrounding the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman, now imprisoned in…

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Kyrgyz led in chains, Kyrgyz led in chains! Their ears pierced, their faces bruised—they are driven into the kingdom of Chin. The Son of Heaven took pity on them and…

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When the prince has no principles by which he examines his administration, and his ministers have no laws by which they keep themselves in the discharge of their duties, then…

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Skimming the internet, I am impressed with a number of “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” farewells from around the country. Here are my picks: the…

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Scott Horton will appear this week on FAIR’s CounterSpin to discuss “Coups ‘R Us”. A K Street whispering and PR campaign launched by Barbour Griffith & Rogers on behalf of…

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As we come to the second anniversary of the Katrina disaster, we have an appropriate time to remember that assistance to the populace in times of natural disaster is an…

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Yesterday at Fort Meade, a jury consisting of nine colonels and one brigadier general rendered a verdict in the case of Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan. He was acquitted on all…

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God is near you, is with you, is inside you…. If you have ever come on a dense wood of ancient trees that have risen to an exceptional height, shutting…

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A few weeks ago, I reported that two major professional organizations—the lawyers (ABA) and the psychologists (APA)–appeared poised to condemn the Bush Administration’s torture policies and to stake out principled…

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Scott Horton discusses the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the possible choice of Michael Chertoff as his replacement in an interview with the similarly named Scott Horton at…

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Further, it will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their…

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Today Brit Hume, the Fox anchor, is summing up Alberto Gonzales this way: Gonzales was a man almost without fans in Washington at the end, because he was never much…

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Scott Horton will discuss the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the selection of Paul Clement as Interim Attorney General, and the potential nomination of Michael Chertoff, currently Secretary of…

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Justice Department sources told me on Friday morning that in addition to the two resignations I cited there was a third and quite significant one which might become public before…

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I grew up in Istanbul … among society people. I wanted to be like the Europeans. I couldn’t see how I could reconcile my becoming a European with a God…

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Christopher De Bellaigue, “There is no east: Reading Orhan Pamuk,” Harper’s, Sept. 2007 Who is the greatest living writer? Society doesn’t tend to be a great judge of the living.…

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An amazing new bit of Schmittiana has surfaced. Carl Schmitt had his professional apogee seventy years ago, and he’s been dead since 1985, but a lot of interesting material about…

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On Wednesday, I did a slot on CSPAN’s Washington Journal. One of the callers, a retired officer, used his question opportunity to make a statement. He recalled Colonel David Hackworth’s…

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I am a big fan of YouTube, and would, in fact reckon it the major internet advancement of the last two years. No blog has made more effective use of…

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Justice is the goal and must also therefore serve as the internal measure of all politics… What is this justice? This is a subject of practical and reasoned inquiry; but…

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In 1874, Friedrich Nietzsche published his Untimely Observations, the second part of which was called On the Use and Abuse of History. In the core of this work, Nietzsche develops…

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This really is a story for Washington Babylon, and not No Comment, but as my counterpart is settling back in after a well-earned rest, I’ll give it a go-ahead. For…

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Earlier this week the Judge Advocate General of the Army, Major General Scott Black, issued a memorandum for the JAG Corps which has been secured by No Comment (readers who…

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