Peter Murmann

I am not a fan of the death penalty. But when it comes to terrorists or military leaders, taking aggressors out is the right cause of action. Psychologically, this is a big moment for Americans.  And it surely is different from the Royal Wedding last week in London, which was also a big event. [Read More]

The Supreme Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know pornography when I see it.” Watching Coco avant Chanel I became less sure that I could identify in all instances of prostitution when I see it. Early in her adult life, Coco tracks an aristocrat to his country mansion and then exchanges sex for food, lodging, [Read More]

Virginia Woolf’s last letter to her husband, Leonard, reads: Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. [Read More]

I was impressed with Peggy Noonan when she—although a Republican partisan—called Sarah Palin’s nomination ridiculous. Her commitment to truth and integrity made her write this scathing review of Donald Rumsfeld memoirs in the WSJ. The One That Got Away Memoirist Rumsfeld seems to forget why we went to Afghanistan. I like Donald Rumsfeld. I’ve always thought he [Read More]

David Brooks continues to lay out in the NY Times his argument for a new humanism that tries to understand how human beings flourish collectively. Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust [Read More]

Want to know what the average American is up to in terms of his or her sexual patterns, here you can find out. David Brown reports in the Washington post on a new A sweeping survey of Americans’ sexual behavior Evan Hughes provides a thoughtful review in TNR of Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans [Read More]