Bret Stephens

December 18, 2020 | John Hannah |

Biden Shouldn’t Rush to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal

Moving quickly to resurrect the JCPOA, as Biden seems set to do, would start his presidency with a hugely divisive controversy.

May 8, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

War on Campus

Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...

September 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal, Sheryl Saperia

Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...

May 20, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Nobody Knows Anything About Fascism

As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, Donald Trump is no fascist, but there...

May 13, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Done Deal?

All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...

March 11, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Who’s A Fascist? Not Donald Trump

No, Donald Trump isn’t a fascist. And the efforts of a considerable number of columnists, reporters, and even university professors to make him out to be a second Hitler or Mussolini testif...

September 3, 2014 | Clifford D. May

A Job Americans Don’t Want To Do?

Barack Obama has been taking a lot of heat for acknowledging he doesn’t “have a strategy yet” for dealing with the jihadis butchering Iraqis, Syrians, Christians, Kurds and Yazi...

November 28, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

After Geneva

To be fair, the document signed in Geneva is not meant to neutralize the threat posed by those who rule Iran. It is meant o...

May 13, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Radioactive Regime

The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...

December 13, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Dictators and Dissidents

Support the latter, bet on the former.

December 10, 2012 |

Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring

Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....

September 25, 2012 |

Give Paul Ryan His Foreign Policy Due

Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...

May 18, 2011 | |

Iran’s War Against America in Its ‘Backyard’

The German daily Die Welt published an eye-opening report last Thursday that the Iranian regime has begun building missile bases at a military complex in Venezuela. Citing “Western...

March 10, 2011 |

Libya Commentary

In this morning’s column, I argue against intervention in Libya’s internal strife — a battle proponents of intervention portray as the incorrigibly terrorist anti-American Qadda...

January 19, 2011 | National Review Online

Wrong on Rauf

Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i...

December 2, 2010 | |

I’ll See Your Cyberwar and Raise You One Subpoena

Referring to the feckless cease-and-desist letter the State Department's Harold Koh sent to Wikileaker Julian Assange, Jonah aptly...

July 19, 2010 | |

Should Israel Bomb Iran?

There is only one thing that terrifies Washington’s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli...

June 21, 2010 | Pajamas Media

The Failed Frontal Assault of Fareed Zakaria

Now comes Fareed Zakaria to denounce the “fantasy” of an Iranian revolution.  His main target is Sen. John McCain, but while he’s at it Zakaria unloads on Reuel Gerecht, Br...

June 17, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Boxing Iran?

President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...

June 17, 2010 | Fred Piccolo Pajamas Media

The Fatal Follies of Containment

Cliff May has an outstanding piece arguing, correctly I think, that containment will not work with a nuclear Iran. It would be too costly to maintain, involve too many countries with confl...