Author Archives: Chase Madar

Legal Atrocities

Do the WikiLeaks war logs reveal war crimes — or the poverty of international law?

What’s Wrong With Rights?

Mary Ann Glendon challenges America’s supreme political values.

Dooley Noted

Listen to Finley Peter Dunne’s sagacious Irishman.

Blood on Whose Hands?

From TomDispatch: Bradley Manning, Washington, and the blood of civilians  By Chase Madar …

Bradley Manning: American Hero

From TomDispatch: Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal …

Torture’s Comeback

Don’t rush to credit waterboarding for catching bin Laden.

Libyan War: Legal, Multilateral, and Still Wrong

Why UN Security Council Resolution 1973 was no adequate reason to wage …

Tom Clancy’s “Brain-Dead or Alive”

By Tom Clancy Created by Tom Clancy’s Op-Center, written in collaboration with …

Ostrich America?

The ludicrous, destructive, curiously enduring myth of U.S. isolationism. By Chase Madar …

Guanatanamo, U.S.A.

America’s camp for terror detainees is not much of a departure from …

Obama’s Gitmo

Torturing the rule of law

Boy George

Exclusive excerpts from the former First Lady’s new book, Spoken from the Heart

How Liberals Kill

Harold Koh learns to love bomb power.

Dear Diary

Feb. 8, 2009: My speech at the Rotary Club of Ulan-Bator about …

Hail to the Chiefs

When the president does it, it isn’t illegal.

Colonial Gingrichburg

The American Conservative is privileged to publish this excerpt from Newt Gingrich’s …

The People’s Priest

Ivan Illich understood the dangers of trying to save the world.

Idle Smashing

An evening with Christopher Hitchens

Care Tactics

Samantha Power and the weaponization of human rights