Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
One Hell of a Speech
Obama didn't deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the perfo...
The Audacity of Oops
Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley procured an early draft of President Obama's upcoming State of the Union ...
Too Big to Succeed
Homeland Security, with its $42 billion budget, is a giant bureaucratic disaster. Christopher Buckley wonders who, re...
A Holiday Lesson from Auschwitz
Last week's theft and recovery of the death camp's famous sign serves as a potent coda to the decade, says The Daily ...
