Margaret Thatcher

January 29, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Why We Need to Worry About China and 5G

The Chinese have taken the lead on this important technology while also building a surveillance state. What could go wrong?

February 8, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

What Makes A Great President?

We moved to Washington from Rome early in 1977, and I worked at CSIS, then home to many luminaries of the Republican Establishment. There was a lot of talk about Ronald Reagan, running for the Re...

November 16, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A France-U.S. Anti-Islamist Alliance

Even before the French-born Kouachi brothers went on a shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in January, French officials knew their luck was running out. Paris had always coun...

January 20, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change

All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere.  It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...

November 24, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Nuclear Talks: The Narcissism of Minor Differences Between the EU and US

With the negotiation process to end Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program about to enter the final stretch, nuanced differences still exist among the Western powers toward Tehran....

October 24, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

Remembering The Invasion of Grenada 30 Years On

One night in late October, 1983,  I listened to a BBC short wave broadcast reporting that the United States was about to invade Grenada.  I chuckled, said to myself, “Crazy Brits,...

September 24, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Home Alone

With her third federal election triumph on Sunday, Sept. 22, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrated that her preferred foreign policy direction is, well, inward -- or at least one of non-in...

September 5, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Assad Must Pay

It’s not just President Obama’s “red line” that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has crossed. Civilized people have long set limits on armed conflicts. Using chemical weapons...

July 1, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Europe’s Assist to Hezbollah

The new Syrian war death toll of over 100,000 coincided last week...

May 3, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

The Rise of Germany’s Tea Party

Could a brand-new, anti-euro political movement threaten Merkel's quest for a third term?

April 18, 2013 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

The Problem with the Pivot

The Far East is as inscrutable as the Middle East.

April 10, 2013 | James Kirchick Haaretz |

A Friendship Without Prejudice: Thatcher’s Kinship with Jews and Israel

Thatcher’s personal narrative of the determined outsider made good has clear Jewish resonances, and may explain her well-known affinity for Jews and her defense of Israel....

April 8, 2013 | Clifford D. May National Review Online

Thatcher Rules

I have a signed copy of Margaret Thatcher’s Statecraft on the mantle above my fireplace. On the...

June 28, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Lose LOST

The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.

June 25, 2012 | James Kirchick World Affairs Journal |

Read Me If You Can: Censorship Today

You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Nick Cohen (London: Fourth Estate, 2012) If I complacently accept the idea that...

May 3, 2012 | James Kirchick Tablet

London Jews’ Labour Problem

London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—whose political future will be determined in today’s election against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson—has a Jewish problem. He&rsqu...

December 19, 2011 | James Kirchick Tablet |

The Happy Warrior

My memories of Christopher Hitchens

March 24, 2011 |

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...

February 4, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

Three Qualities That Made Reagan Great

During my nine years in the White House, I had the good fortune to work for three presidents—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, for the last four, Ronald Reagan, whom I served as national secu...

November 2, 2009 |

How The Wall Fell

When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...