Iran’s rulers are true believers
That’s why they’re so difficult to deter or constrain
Bernard Lewis
What Victory Looks Like When Your Foe Won’t Surrender
The U.S. can win without Iran acknowledging it lost
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Using Human Rights as a Weapon Against Iran
The uprising began because of an Iranian woman’s hair. In September 2022, Iran’s morality police arrested and then killed 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Her murder...
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Why Trump can’t beat the Houthis
Attacking proxies won’t wound Iran
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‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history
The Palestinian intellectual is in denial of the long history of antisemitism in the Muslim world.
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The problem with Republican isolationism
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again
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The Israeli Moment
If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.
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Remember Lepanto
A great battle in a war not yet ended
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President Biden had options
He chose the worst of them
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Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Did you have a horrible Thanksgiving?
The blame-America-first crowd always does, and insists you should, too
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Another unhappy 9/11 anniversary
We continue to fight erratically and without a coherent global strategy.
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Iran can cause a new Holocaust, warns Islam expert in Austrian Parliament
"If there is going to be a repeat of the Holocaust, it will not be in Europe - here people have matured - but in the Middle East."
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Be Careful What You Revolt For
Forty years after Khomeini took power, Iranians are still suffering for their revolution.
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Democracies die in daylight
Freedom House’s new report on the decline of free nations is on track—except when it’s not
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Extremism and fragile states
Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...
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Beyond Orientalism
Bernard Lewis, the incomparable scholar of the Middle East and Islam, died last week. I cannot claim to have known Professor Lewis well, but one didn’t need to spend much time in his...
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A Historian in Full
The university flag at Princeton is flying at half-mast. It’s an appropriate tribute to Bernard Lewis, who died on May 19, less than a fortnight from his 102nd birthday. Professor Lewis was...
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The proliferation problem from hell
On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...
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Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...