Michael Gerson
-
Mortality in the near distanceDec 08, 2013 4:00 am - In my mid-20s, I had a new bride, a plum job on Capitol Hill, and, apparently, the beginnings of a cancerous tumor on my right kidney. For 20 or 25 years — the best esti...
-
C.S. Lewis: Rescuing desireNov 26, 2013 4:00 am - In appreciations of the writer and Cambridge don C.S. Lewis, it is often noted that he died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was murdered. Beyond a confusi...
-
A rescuer for American conservatismNov 20, 2013 4:00 am - For those who expect and fear an irrepressible conflict between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is a hopeful anomaly. Should this a...
-
The entrepreneurs of outrageNov 17, 2013 4:00 am - Among the saddest aspects of a political culture premised on the exaggeration and organization of grievances is the way policy debates get pulled into a vortex of parano...
-
Evangelicals and immigration reformNov 10, 2013 4:00 am - In the immigration reform debate, evangelicals have become a political prize claimed by restrictionists and reformers alike. Both sides have a case to make. Of the majo...
-
The GOP’s new realityNov 05, 2013 10:52 am - Following the recent Tea Party Tet Offensive — tactically disastrous but symbolically important — the Republican establishment has commenced counterinsurgency operations...
-
GOP: Stop being so negativeNov 03, 2013 5:00 am - The American political class is facing a perfect storm of public contempt. Congressional Republicans have proved themselves divided and incapable of adopting a coherent...
-
Syria’s brutality continues at willOct 29, 2013 5:00 am - While chemical weapons disarmament proceeds in Syria, so do mass attacks on civilians. In the eastern suburbs of Damascus, where the regime used sarin, it now conducts a...
-
A health care law in need of a doctorOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - For liberals, it is a cruel twist of history that Harry Truman’s dream of universal health coverage, carried forward by generations of committed Democrats, should fall t...
-
A House divided cannot governOct 22, 2013 5:00 am - Seldom does politics offer the rigor and certainty of science, but we have just witnessed a case that comes close. Tea Party leaders predicted that a shutdown strategy w...