Bret Stephens
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.
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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...
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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,...
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Nobody Knows Anything About Fascism
As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, Donald Trump is no fascist, but there...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 &...
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Dictators and Dissidents
Support the latter, bet on the former.
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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....
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Give Paul Ryan His Foreign Policy Due
Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...