George Orwell

October 7, 2024 | David May |

South Africa’s Latest Pro-Terror Move

Why is the ANC renaming a major Johannesburg thoroughfare?

September 20, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom

Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line

March 2, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Russia, Ukraine, and the West’s grand delusion

Freedom must be defended or surrendered – there’s no third option

June 9, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

July 1, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Meet the restrainers

They want to make America second-rate again

December 26, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Looking for the exits

President Trump repeats the strategic errors of his predecessor.

September 13, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

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...

May 10, 2017 | Clifford D. May

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...

November 9, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

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...

September 21, 2016 | Clifford D. May

“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...

August 3, 2016 | Clifford D. May

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...

December 17, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

October 15, 2014 | |

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...

May 21, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

December 26, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

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...

September 26, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Après Putin, Le Déluge?

At first blush, Ilan Berman’s timing could hardly be worse. His new book, Implosion: Th...

August 26, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

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...

June 3, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

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....

March 18, 2013 | Robert Barnidge The Hindu |

Not So Strictly Legal

International lawyers must introspect about how their partisan allegiance clouded their determination of the lawfulness of the 2003 Iraq war. As some celebrate and others decry...

March 8, 2013 | |

Zionism Isn’t a Dirty Word

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has provoked yet another international diplomatic stir with Israel. Speaking, (where else?), at a United Nations conference in Vienna last week, ...