Ayaan Hirsi Ali

January 15, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Coming to America

It’s not just mass illegal immigration that poses a threat

January 8, 2025 | Clifford D. May

Border security is national security

That used to be common knowledge

January 17, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The president’s speech

Much of my so-called career as a foreign correspondent was spent in countries that could accurately be described with the scatological adjective allegedly uttered by President ...

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...

October 20, 2016 | Oren Kessler

Rizvi’s Reformation

The Atheist Muslim opens with snow in Saudi Arabia. The author, Ali Rizvi, is in fifth grade at the American school in Riyadh, where students are folding glittery snowflakes out of construction p...

March 23, 2016 | Clifford D. May

When universities become day care centers

Back in 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, warned against “defining deviancy down.” He was talking specifically about crime, about our getting used to it and not...

July 23, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Radical Islam and the Culture War

What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...

April 15, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Case For Heresy

By now, you should be familiar with the name Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You should know at least this much about her: She is brilliant, beautiful, black and she has been banned near Boston. You mi...

December 23, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The War on Free Speech

Last Friday, in his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama scolded Sony Pictures. Cancelling the theatrical release of “The Interview” following cyber-attacks from North Ko...

April 16, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Academic Dishonors

Remember when colleges prided themselves on the diligence and depth of their research?  Frederick Lawrence, president of Brandeis University, apparently does not. He offered an honorary degr...

April 11, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

It’s Not New at Brandeis; ‘Repressive Tolerance’ was Born There

Shutting down a speaker, or a professor, or a book with which you strongly disagree is nothing new. Indeed, if there’s anything really new about Brandeis’ disinvitation to Ayaan Hirsi...

June 25, 2012 | James Kirchick World Affairs Journal |

Read Me If You Can: Censorship Today

You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Nick Cohen (London: Fourth Estate, 2012) If I complacently accept the idea that...

February 21, 2012 |

First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else

It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.

January 12, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Muslims Attacked!

It’s funny, in an Orwellian way, that in Europe there are now militant groups with such cutesy names as Sharia4Belgium and Sharia4Holland. Less funny, but perhaps more Orwellian, is this: L...

December 7, 2010 | National Security Policy Proceedings

Review — Nomad: From Islam to America. A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

A Nomad's Journey Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born feminist, continues to invoke the ire of Muslims worldwide with her scathing depiction of the Islamic faith and culture writ large...

October 19, 2010 |

Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism

A key figure in one of Europe's most infamous Islamic extremist networks has written a public letter renouncing whole swathes of the ideology that led him to try to murder non-believers. On...

October 12, 2010 |

Geert Wilders: A Free-Speech Litmus Test

Berlin - Holland's judicial campaign to strip Geert Wilders of his right to engage in ruthless polemical and intellectual criticism of Islam...

May 20, 2010 | Tony Badran Jerusalem Post

The Flight of the Intellectuals

Paul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism...

March 28, 2007 |

Una Mujer Peligrosa

Theo van Gogh era un hombre occidental moderno, un creyente en la razón, la tolerancia y el multiculturalismo. Y por ello quizá encaja que sus últimas palabras fueran: &ldquo...

March 28, 2007 |

A Dangerous Woman

Theo van Gogh was a modern Western man, a believer in reason, tolerance and multiculturalism. And so it is perhaps fitting that his last words were: “Can’t we talk about this?”...