Italians

December 13, 2022 | Caleb Weiss |

German national freed in the Sahel after years of jihadist captivity

Late last week, German national Jorg Lange was freed in the Sahel after spending the last four years being held by the Islamic State’s Sahel Province (more commonly known as the Islamic State in the Greater...

January 26, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Post-Post-JCPOA World

Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?

March 19, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

China’s Dangerous Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign

The Chinese government expelled journalists from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post this week. Beijing claims the move was retaliation against Washington for placing “unwarranted...

March 16, 2020 | John Hannah |

Big Takeaways from the Biden-Sanders Debate

Our experts weigh in on the first head-to-head debate between the two main remaining Democratic contenders.

August 10, 2018 | Romany Shaker

France vs Italy in Libya: The U.S. Should Not Choose Sides

After meeting with President Donald Trump on July 30, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...

August 19, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?

At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican. You’ve undoubtedl...

June 27, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt

I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain;  when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included.   We...

May 25, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Another Eulogy

Odds are you’ve never heard of Marco Pannella, the longtime leader of the Italian Radical Party, who died last week in Rome.  He was 86, quite surprising for one of the country’s...

March 11, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

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...

February 3, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The Islamist wears Dolce & Gabbana

In the “culture” section of the venerable Atlantic magazine last month, there was a news item I wouldn’t want you to miss: “The Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana h...

June 24, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Admitting Syrian Refugees: The Intelligence Void and the Escalating Homeland Security Threat

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February 17, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

A Chance for Italy to Distinguish Itself

A new president has just taken office in Italy, but since the country only makes news when something bad or sexy—or both—happens, most readers north and west of the Alps probably won&...

January 7, 2015 | Clifford D. May The Washington Times |

Napoleon in the Middle East

The French emperor’s war against an Islamic empire is instructive

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

April 21, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

Out with the Old

Italy has long been Europe’s political laboratory, having invented fascism, incubated eurocommunism, launched the postwar economic miracle, and brought the social democratic nanny state to...

February 5, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Europe is Speed-Dating Iran

European companies were astonishingly quick to seek new business with Iran following the interim nuclear agreement the P5+1 states and Tehran reached in November 2013‫.‬‬‬...

January 13, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Unraveling?

President Obama’s nuclear agreement to slow down Iran’s drive to become a nuclear-weapons power faces tough resistance from Senate Republicans and Democrats because of massive loophol...

January 6, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Has the Geneva Agreement Undercut Sanctions to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program?

The interim nuclear deal reached between the major powers and the Islamic Republic on November 24 opened the investment floodgates for Western companies seeking to capitalize on a new business en...

October 10, 2013 |

The Real Lessons of Munich

On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

The Metaphysics of Jailbreaks

In the mid-seventies, when I was reporting from Rome for The New Republic, jailbreaks were commonplace.  Red Brigades terrorists and other such broke out of prisons throughout the c...