Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate.
John David Lewis
John David Lewis (website) is a Visiting Professor of Political Science, Duke University. He has been a Senior Research Scholar in History and Classics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and an Anthem Fellow.
Hatred of Western Civilization: Why Terrorists Attacked America
The late Dr. John Lewis read this statement to his class on September 12, 2001 — the day after America was attacked by Islamic Jihadists. His words are all the more relevant today.
The Mythical “Right to Healthcare”
After fifty years of growing government programs, health care costs continue to rise. The U.S. government now controls nearly half of all health care dollars, and the crisis is becoming acute. The plans we are seeing from Washington are not innovations, but rather...
What The "Affordable Health Care For America Act," HR3962, Actually Says
What does the bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, HR3962, short-titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act, actually say about major health-care issues? I here pose a few commonsense questions, cite some relevant passages, and offer a few...
Report from the 9/11 and 9/12/2009 Washington Protests
When speaking about rights, don’t water down the principle.
The Collapse of America? The Dire Message of Mr. David Walker
A person who is in the pay of the government is not always free to speak publicly about the most pressing issues he confronts. Administrators who are appointed to perform specific tasks are generally not free to contradict or even to challenge policies. They often...
Suppose Car Insurance Was Considered to Be a ‘Right’
The major impetus behind the Democratic health care plans is not economic--it is moral. The claim that health care is a moral right has motivated enormous government coercions against the medical industry for nearly fifty years. But this moral claim has blinded people...
The Health Care Bill: What HR 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” Says
What does the bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, HR3962, short-titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act, actually say about major health-care issues? I here pose a few commonsense questions, cite some relevant passages, and offer a few...
Jewish Settlements and Israeli Law
We are hearing a lot now about Israel's creation of "Jewish" settlements on "Palestinian land." These settlements are created, we are often told, to extend the "apartheid state" of Israel by squeezing out the local populations and establishing a superior Jewish ruling...
What 'Right' to Health Care?
As the issue of health care reform builds to a legislative climax, it is important that we not merely parrot the same kinds of proposals we have seen for the past 50 years. A Point of View writer on [the Raleigh News-Observer] lamented that "after a half-century of...
The Charlotte Tea Party Speech
It is high time for a tea party in America!
Reason or Faith: The Republican Alternative
The presidential election of 2008 was more significant than the mere defeat of John McCain; it was a resounding defeat of the Republican party. Conscientious Republicans are now faced with the question: Why? Why did so many Americans either not vote, or vote for...
Airstrikes Against Iran?
Why do I assume that air strikes against Iran will be ineffective, especially given the sad shape of the Iranian economy and its weak military capability? [1]My answer: because everything Bush has done for the past seven years indicates that the strikes will be...
The Conservative Package Deal
One of the worst mistakes that one can make in about this election is to see the two-parties as standing for a fundamental alternative.The symptom of this is when an opponent of Party A ("don't vote for McCain") is accused of advocating a vote for Party B. A critic of...
George W. Bush’s Empowerment of Iran
The recent surge in Iraq has gotten great press lately. Clearly Iraq is calmer than it has been in years. The surge itself, some have claimed, demonstrates how the Bush administration has learned to fight such an enemy. It provides, they say, a blueprint for defeating...
A Nation of Sacrificers: McCain’s Love of What is Not America
One thing that is often implied, if not made explicit, about this election is that John McCain--like George Bush--really loves his country. Of course he makes mistakes in particular areas, the apologists claim, but these are the forgivable errors of a true patriot....
An Open Letter to Members of Congress on the Financial Mess
Dear Members of Congress: On September 16 [2008] I sent a letter to my congressman, and to other senior US government officials, that consisted of three sentences: "I oppose all bailouts of financial institutions by the US government. Government regulation...
America Should Not Abandon Israel — The Front Line of Civilization
I just returned from a speaking engagement at Tel Aviv University (see pictures here). My honorarium was four days of sight-seeing in Tel Aviv, Abu Gosh, Jerusalem, En Gedi and Masada, and a series of meetings with writers, policy analysts, academics and writers. I...
On The Rise of Islamic Rule in Turkey
Any “interpretation” of Islam that is consistent with the Koran as a revealed, unquestioned authority will end in a reversion to its brute, fundamental meaning: the subordination of women and non-Muslims to dictatorial rule by a clerical elite.
Islamic States and Thought Crimes: The Thug’s Ideal
What deeper attack on civilization, freedom, the mind, and human life could be possible than to propose the establishment of thought crimes in an American university?
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