Age of Enlightenment

May 24, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous

“It is this movement,” according to a British report on political extremism, “that has proven most willing to use law breaking, intimidation, and at times, violence.”

November 8, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Hamas vs. Western Civ

Gaza is a significant battleground

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

September 3, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.

July 2, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon, America, and the Courage of Fouad Ajami

For his courage to think independently, and for his honesty in tackling Arab failure, Ajami became the guiding light for many Arab thinkers after him.

June 22, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The friends of our enemies

Westerners, too, are waging a ‘War on the West’

December 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

October 20, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Border security is national security

The crisis Biden has sparked will do lasting damage

June 30, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Getting smarter about Critical Race Theory

If CRT is correct, is America worth defending?

March 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Uniting France

President Macron deserves credit for trying

July 22, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Mike Pompeo’s fight for unalienable rights

The Human Rights Establishment wants him out of the marketplace of ideas

May 28, 2020 | Eliora Katz |

The Old and New Persian Empires

Iraq is invaded and its despot is deposed. Iran encroaches, amassing territory covering Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The year is 539 BCE, though it eerily echoes events following the fall of Saddam...

October 11, 2017 | Clifford D. May

We’ll always have Paris

Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...

July 12, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?

On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...

September 7, 2016 | Clifford D. May

How the world has changed since 9/11

The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection — and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking to...

May 4, 2016 | Clifford D. May

How much ruin is there in a nation?

People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. The policy not to mole...

May 13, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Fine Line Between Free Speech and Provocation

Rights are like muscles. If not exercised, they atrophy. Freedom of speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, is the most fundamental of rights. Without it, how do you even defend your o...

January 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal Fox News

Europe Needs Straight Talk About Radical Islam

BERLIN –  Europe’s timid approach to Islamic terrorism imploded last week with the horrific jihadi-animated murder of 17 men and women in Paris, including most of the cartoonists...

September 10, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Thirteen Years After 9/11

Do not call what happened 13 years ago this week a tragedy. It was a terrorist atrocity, an act of war and a war crime. Very different.   The self-proclaimed jihadis responsible for...

September 5, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Muslim Identity Crisis

The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...