Fareed Zakaria

May 8, 2024 | Rep. Mike Gallagher, Matt Pottinger

The high cost of failing to contain China

In Fareed Zakaria’s May 5 op-ed, “A hawkish strategy on China is a big mistake,” he argued in response to our recent Foreign Affairs article, “No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition...

March 11, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Dragons and snakes stalk us

We can try to kill them, attempt to keep them at bay, or let them rule the jungle

May 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn

Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...

August 11, 2015 | |

Despite their Quiet, Gulf States Remain Uneasy about Iran Deal

The Obama administration insists that “99% of the world” supports the Joint Comprehensi...

June 16, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Jonathan Schanzer

When America’s Enemies Are Also Its Friends

President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at...

May 12, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya

Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...

December 29, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Al Qaeda’s Big Year

Any way you measure it, 2013 was a good year for al Qaeda. It wasn’t supposed to be. Shortly after the United States killed the group’s charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, a couple o...

February 27, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

How AIPAC Is Losing

Chuck Hagel will be secretary of Defense, and Iran will go nuclear. So much for an all-powerful Israel Lobby.

September 7, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Obama Politicizes Bin Laden Raid, Again

During his acceptance speech last night, President Obama claimed, “I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have.” The clear impli...

March 14, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

A Guide for the Perplexed Fareed Zakaria

Why Saudi Arabia will want a nuke if Iran gets one -- and other mysteries explained.

August 26, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Japan’s Political Science Lesson for Zakaria

More evidence is emerging of Fareed Zakaria​’s political science astuteness (see my earlier post...

August 23, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Financial Holes Dug by Parliamentary Systems

Peter Wehner’s entry on Fareed Zakaria​’s paean for parliamentary democracy rightfully defends America’s system of government. But one should add, even if America’s...

February 1, 2011 |

The Answer to Egypt’s Problems?

President Mubarak’s government may soon collapse. Popular support for him has evaporated, and while the Obama administration has declined to officially take sides in the Egyptian protests,...

September 11, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Is ‘Constructive Disengagement’ the Solution in Somalia?

On Thursday, Joshua Foust published an article at PBS's Need to Know that, though avoiding the term "constructive disengagement," mirrors the arguments advanced by Bronwyn Bruton's repo...

September 11, 2010 |

America May Have Overreacted to September 11 … but Americans Didn’t

Did America overreact to September 11? In a recent column in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria answered that with an emphatic and mournful “yes.” In Mr. Zakaria’s telling, we’ve sq...

September 8, 2010 |

This Is Where We Begin to Say No

A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasan...

September 2, 2010 | Clifford D. May

The Worst of Time

Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy.  He saw the 20th century as "t...

August 12, 2010 | Clifford D. May

The Taboo of the Intellectuals

The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist. On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely...

August 11, 2010 |

What Is Moderate Islam?

Is the “Ground Zero Imam,” Feisal Abd ar-Rauf, a moderate Muslim? I do not know. I have yet to read his books or peruse his speeches and sermons in all the languages that Mr. Rauf use...

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...