Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.
French Revolution
How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites
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...
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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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It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda
And it’s about “subjugating people” and “the Islamization of life.”
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Egyptian Liberals Against the Revolution
Free societies mean more than just free elections.
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An Arab Spring?
Readers of tea leaves, tarot cards and goat entrails may be able to predict the future. But prognostication is a skill few journalists, politicians, diplomats, and intelligence officials have dem...
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Jean-Jacques Jihad
The one thing that absolutely could not be tolerated was true freedom, the liberty of the individual. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the “social compact” would otherwise be “an empt...
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Iran’s Unhappy Anniversary
I was present at the creation - to borrow a phrase from Dean Acheson, Secretary of State to President Truman. Acheson, of course, was speaking of the origins of the Cold War. I am referring to th...
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Christmas is Not Negotiable
By: Dr. Walid Phares On the eve of this Christmas 2008, I shifted from my ongoing field of research and commentary in terrorism, international and ethnic conflict, and global strategies...
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Lessons of Fort Hood
When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not goin...
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A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July
By: Dr. Walid Phares. Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of Jul...
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French Revolution; Why the Gallic Grassroots Just Said ‘Non!’
COGNAC, FRANCE - It seems that France, too, has “red states” and “blue states.” Paris and its posh suburbs are blue: They voted for the proposed European Union co...