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America’s World Role: An Imperial Burden or an Empire in the Fine Old British Tradition?

October 03, 2007

For the first time since 1989 – or arguably, since 1945 – the United States faces an opportunity to reshape the world. It has inherited Britain’s imperial mantle to the point that a future historian may see the British and American empires as a single development, growing like a walnut tree as two trunks from a single root.

Pirates of Penzance

March 20, 2007

Justice Alito's Confirmation Is a Sign of Things to Come

March 30, 2006

Earlier this week, on January 31, Samuel A. Alito, Jr. was confirmed as the 110th Justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite his "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, his distinguished fifteen-year career as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, and a portfolio featuring numerous well-reasoned opinions, Alito's confirmation process was nasty and brutish, even if it was mercifully short.