I wear two hats at the 'Wall Street Journal': one as a columnist, the other as the editor responsible for our editorial pages in Asia and Europe.

I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.