Farewell, Concordia
I am approaching my impending graduation with the sort of aloofness that is probably more appropriate for an impending visit to the DMV. Because I am slated to begin law school this fall, my mind is already wrapped up in [...]
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Why we need immigration
Immigration reform has been in the news recently, principally in relation to an emerging consensus in Congress over a comprehensive overhaul that will touch everything from the contentious issue of border security to expanding the number of visas for highly [...]
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Remembering the Iron Lady
On Monday, April 8, we woke up to the sad news that Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whose epoch changing tenure from 1979 to 1990 radically transformed her country on the basis free-market principles and [...]
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No end in sight
This week, President Obama traveled to Israel for the first time since he assumed office in 2009. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who only recently finally succeeded in organizing a shaky post-election coalition government—and the chairman of the Palestinian [...]
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No more Eastern Europe
I am the son of Polish immigrants and have had the joy of traveling to Poland 19 separate times during the first 22 years of my life. These numerous visits—many of them spanning several months at a time—have been foundational [...]
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Papal precedent
Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world when he announced during a meeting of cardinals in the Vatican that he intended to abdicate the papacy. This was a stunning development because there has been no papal abdication in about seven centuries [...]
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Talking about China
This past week, with the very generous assistance of the political science and global studies departments, I was very fortunate to attend the 54th Academy Assembly of the U.S. Air Force in Colorado Springs. Concordia is one of a small [...]
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Can Iran go nuclear? Rethinking U.S. policy
One of the biggest and potentially most dangerous misconceptions prevalent among policy circles, pundit rounds and election campaigns today is that the United States should do everything in its power to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The laundry list [...]
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The fiscal cliff: a Republican voter’s view
It should be obvious to anyone who follows the news even cursorily that the biggest issue in Washington right now is the matter of the upcoming “fiscal cliff.” If this seems like an overly dramatic expression, it’s because the issue [...]
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What we learned on Tuesday
Everyone can calm down. The votes are in, the results are counted, and the people of the United States now know that Barack Obama will remain president for the next 4 years. The Democratic Party has retained control of the [...]
