Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...
America’s many enemies will be encouraged and emboldened
George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
Mahmoud Abbas entered Yasser Arafat’s office in the Palestinian presidential complex, commonly referred to as the muqata‘a (compound), in the center of Rama...
Tuesday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order...
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...
Do you remember the Axis of Evil? It was one of the major themes of President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech in 2002, 4 months after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Unite...
Each day brings more evidence that the Iran framework is a farce. Reuters reports: “The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had a “constructive exchange” with Iran this week but there...
We are beginning to learn that the Bush administration declined to talk about the discovery of thousands of WMDs in Iraq. But that’s only the beginning of the story, since that policy was j...
Al Qaeda announced this weekend the forthcoming publication of a new Englis...
Sanctions and diplomacy have thus far failed to induce the Iranian regime to cease its nuclear weapons program. We shouldn’t be surprised by this. Top Iranian leaders, from Supreme Leader A...
It’s Middle East Groundhog Day all over again. The discussion of What To Do About Syria is a replay of What To Do About Saddam: it’s all about the wrong war in the wrong p...
Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru. William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan. So when I find myself disagreeing with bo...
Here comes Ross Douthat, trying to sort out Obama’s foreign policy. He’s got...
The U.S. has unique responsibilities. Is that so hard to understand?
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
In March, the Syrian regime began slaughtering peaceful demonstrators in Deraa, a small city close to the Jordanian border. In August, the American president called for the man responsible for th...
The following is not the outline of a rejected screenplay by an aspiring Hollywood writer trying to outdo 24. Nor is it product of a freshman political science student's imagination, concoct...