British Empire

November 15, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Don’t know much about Middle Eastern history

The appalling ignorance of Hamas supporters

September 20, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom

Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line

December 21, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Abdullah in the middle

Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords

June 8, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Rue Britannia? Russian, Iranian and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us

Russian, Iranian, and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us

January 12, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question

Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates

December 9, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The forgotten refugees of the Middle East

Jews who were forced to flee from their homes in Arab lands

August 18, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

The Dangerous Illusion of Restraining U.S. Power

Isolationists among both Democrats and Republicans want to withdraw from foreign entanglements. That would make the world much less safe.

June 20, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China

High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the Indian side of their shared border. Twenty Indians were killed, while China won’t...

February 19, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N. Human Rights Council strikes again

A motley crew of rights violators seeks to harm Israelis and Palestinians alike

November 6, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Selective anti-imperialism

The world’s most despotic empires do not concern Ilhan Omar and her fans.

November 7, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The advance of illiberal world disorder

What Americans achieved after World War II is endangered

May 7, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes

The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...

March 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May

What went wrong in Pakistan

Pakistan was meant to be a model, an example for other nations to emulate. It was founded after World War II, as the sun was set...

March 1, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The West isn’t worse than the rest

 Intellectuals of the left and those influenced by them judge the United States and certain European nations as uniquely guilty of imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homop...

November 2, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The “ideals of 1776”

Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...

May 27, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Historian Turns 100

Twenty years ago, Bernard Lewis and I were walking along the Thames. We’d just seen a dreary English take on naughty French theater, which provoked remembrances of Paris in the 1930s when L...

April 27, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The Mr. Rogers Doctrine

Barack Obama last week visited Saudi Arabia, an unusual nation with which the United States has had a relationship that can be accurately characterized as both strategic and strange — and o...

May 29, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief

Egypt’s “Rebellion” Movement

A new protest movement in Egypt is gaining steam. Driven primarily by Egyptian youth, the Tamarod [Rebellion] Movement seeks to impeach Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. Their plan is to gather...

January 11, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Rationale

Is Iran rational? That’s the key question policy-makers and experts have been asking for at least the last decade as Iran has gotten closer to bringing its nuclear-weapons program on line....

September 28, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Mahmoud and the Wizards of Turtle Bay

Declarations and resolutions do not a state make.