Articles by Robert Zaller

Is it too early to call the Biden administration a catastrophe? It is time, I am afraid, to tell it like it is. Example A…

Why should anybody not be able to have the college education I got? I spent four years getting my bachelor’s degree, followed by eight earning…

The date the Champlain South Tower collapsed in Surfside, Florida — June 24, 2021 — may not live in infamy the way December 7 and…

People these days are talking about whether a two-state solution is possible between Israelis and Palestinians, as they do after each fresh outbreak of violence…

Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American soldiers from Afghanistan before Sept. 11 is not an end to the war in Afghanistan itself, a 40-year conflict…

When I moved to Philadelphia in August of 1987 to take up a position at Drexel University, the ashes on the MOVE bombing had hardly…

What America does, the world sees. The trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was broadcast internationally, and it was not simply…

“The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy” —  so General Omar Bradley described Douglas MacArthur’s push…

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is among the most debated 30 words in American history: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security…

Be careful whom you honor.  The Swedish Academy gave its Nobel Prize in Literature to Gunter Grass, at the time generally recognized as Germany’s most…