Articles by Robert Zaller

The biggest of the many foreign policy problems that Barack Obama is about to bequeath his successor is not the wars now raging in Syria…

It’s time, after 115 years, to retire the Nobel Prize. This year’s award in literature proves it. Yes, the Swedish Academy and the Academy of…

Don’t get me wrong. Donald Trump is the most irresponsible candidate ever to run for high office. It is beyond bizarre to imagine him heading…

The presidential race between the two deplorables seems to be tightening by the day. Hillary Clinton can’t understand why. The other day, she wondered aloud…

Recently, I received an invitation to participate in a discussion about the election this week at Drexel. The objective was to consider the candidates and…

Democracy, as practiced in ancient Athens, consisted of direct citizen participation in government through collective membership in a single, sovereign assembly, which united all three…

A century and a half ago, America came out of slavery. It was perhaps not literally true, as Abraham Lincoln said, that every drop drawn…

Andrew Sullivan, writing in the current issue of New York Magazine, calls the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency “an extinction-level event,” the life-form under…

Bernie Sanders never got the time of day from day one.  Too old; too Jewish; representing too small a state; a loner who hadn’t even…

The major party nominees for president in the current election seem set. Donald Trump will now likely amass the 1,237 delegate votes he needs to…