Yes, cluster munitions are awful. No, that doesn’t mean the U.S. shouldn’t give them to Ukraine

Latest News July 12, 2023

by Jonah Goldberg The controversy over the Biden administration’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions reminded me of my old boss William F. Buckley’s famous rejoinder to claims the United States and the Soviet Union were morally equivalent because they both possessed ...

We never use torture, nuclear weapons or cluster munitions, unless we need to

Latest News July 10, 2023

by John M. Crisp No terrain is more difficult to defend than the moral high ground. As a rule, however, America has done a decent job of it. We are not the sort of people who use torture, nuclear weapons or cluster munitions. Unless we need to.  Consider torture. It’s illegal ...