GW Discourse

“God’s war has just started. Shame on them. We’re going to get to the ballot box through either the courts or the Congress. So tell everyone: Don’t let the marriage licenses start ...

"They had a three-year head start to build their organization, and they outspent us two to one. If they can’t win there, it really does tell you the majority of Americans are not on board with this gay marriage thing."

Randall L. Schweller, writing in The National Interest, offers a vision of our increasingly “entropic” history, tinged, it seems,in the gray lenses of post-modern theory. What’s our ...

Ever since Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998 because of his homosexuality, LGBT rights groups have worked towards passing a federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act. 2009 saw the passage ...

Among Barack Obama’s most endearing qualities is his apparent grasp of what the French call nuance. In an era when political discourse is conducted on the “soundbite” level of children’s advertising, ...

It’s not completely shocking when socially liberal strongholds like Massachusetts and Vermont legalize same-sex marriage. But in April of 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court surprised America by allowing gays and lesbians in the American Heartland the right to marry.

In the Winter 2009 issue of GW Discourse, in an article about corruption in the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai’s government, I argued that the level of corruption in the government not only served ...

A couple of days ago, a New York Times “news analysis” caught my eye. The item seemed to argue that in the wake of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s army shooting and the discovery of five American ...

Complain about the award if you must, but President Obama, in receiving his Nobel Prize, spoke as effectively as a man in his position could. He acknowledged the greatest obstacle to his worthiness, and those are the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

As I tried to make clear in my article in the new Discourse print issue, President Obama’s Middle East diplomacy is failing. He raised expectations before knowing he could get the sides to deliver anything substantive enough to meet those expectations. ...