Getting smarter about Critical Race Theory
If CRT is correct, is America worth defending?
Leon Trotsky
McMaster and commander in chief
The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”
Op-eds
A little pivot to Central Asia
Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It spans Central Asia, home to the world’s most sophisticated civilizations...
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National security policies of the next commander-in-chief
“National security” is a highfalutin phrase for a problem that can be stated quite simply: We have enemies. What do we do about them? Since this is a matter of life and death, it&rsqu...
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Analysis: Will France Invoke NATO’s Article 5 to Declare War on Islamic State?
To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France’s President François Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,...
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Arming the Mullahs
Somebody on Twitter posted an upbeat message saying the US delegation to the latest round of talks with Iranian officials was quite optimistic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a born op...
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You Cannot Reform a Totalitarian (You’ve Got to Defeat Him)
Back when I was even younger, and living in Rome, the main topic of conversation was of course Communism. Italy had the largest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union, and it was forever on the...
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Contentions Iran Clash Much Ado About Nothing
Much is being written about the clash between Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The two most important things about this spat have so far...
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Dr. Fadl’s Complaint
An influential jihadi blames al-Qaeda for the bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room
Watching Wahhabis.
Op-eds
Mugged by Surreality
By Stephen Schwartz FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a country with a divided soul: on one side, a record of humanistic Enlightenment philosophy and modern art unrivalled by any other nation; on t...