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South Africa’s Latest Pro-Terror Move
Why is the ANC renaming a major Johannesburg thoroughfare?
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Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom
Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line
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Russia, Ukraine, and the West’s grand delusion
Freedom must be defended or surrendered – there’s no third option
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US-based Iranian professor under fire for hiding facts about 1988 massacre
Several activists and human rights organizations have launched a campaign against Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations who now serves as a professor at Oberlin College...
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Meet the restrainers
They want to make America second-rate again
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Things we know that aren’t so
It’s not just homo economicus who threatens us
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Looking for the exits
President Trump repeats the strategic errors of his predecessor.
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Fixing the United Nations
The United Nations was created in the wake of World War II by the major Allied nations that had prevailed – at an enormous cost in blood and treasure -- over the Axis powers. Its foun...
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Fooling many of the people, much of the time
“Hamas Drops Call for Israel’s Destruction,” headlined The Wall Street Journal last week. The New York Times told its readers: “Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel.” And...
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The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
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“Political correctness” aims at a new target
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...
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Curb your socialism
Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of...
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America Needs Its Rough Men
In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...
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A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship
The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...
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Who Should #BringBackOurGirls?
I’m not among those who object to the Twitter campaign focusing on the kidnapping and enslaving of hundreds of Nigerian school girls. As syndicated columnist, Charles...
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Iran’s Delays and Deceptions
Just before Congress recessed for the holidays, 26 senators — 13 Democrats and 13 Republicans, led by Senators Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) — introduced the Nuc...
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Après Putin, Le Déluge?
At first blush, Ilan Berman’s timing could hardly be worse. His new book, Implosion: Th...
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The Road to Damascus Starts in Tehran
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...
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Syria: The Spanish Civil War All Over Again
History may not quite repeat itself, but the war in Syria — invariably, “the Syrian Civil War” — is eerily similar to the “Spanish Civil War” in the mid-1930s....