We’ll always have Paris
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
Paul Berman
Our Man in Havana
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What...
Op-eds
Erdogan and the Meaning of Hitler
It’s one of those questions political science majors debate over too many beers at the college pub: Which is better, a parliamentary system or a government headed by a powerful chief execut...
Op-eds
Radical Islam and the Culture War
What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...
Op-eds
America Needs an ‘Overarching Strategy’
Here’s the dilemma: How do we stop the Islamic State without strengthening the Islamic Republic? The Islamic State, a growing Sunni jihadist militia, now controls large swath...
Op-eds
Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria
Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...
Press Releases
Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action in Syria
Foreign Poli...
Press Releases
In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Afshin Ellian
Paul Berman's book, The Flight of the Intellectuals, which was neglected or dismissed by many in the liberal press without its reviewers seriously engaging with its arguments, deals es...
Op-eds
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist. On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely...
Op-eds
From Berlin to Jerusalem
Last month, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the mufti of Jerusalem, called on Palestinians to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which he said was “threatened by the plans of the enemies of God,” by...
Op-eds
The Flight of the Intellectuals
Paul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism...
Op-eds
Romancing the Jihad
Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?
Op-eds
Unserious Syriana
How hopeless is Hollywood? More than four years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America's movie moguls seem to have not a clue about who attacked us or why, or what sort o...
Op-eds
What’s Left? Answer: A Few Liberal Hawks
The war in Iraq is a neo-conservative project, right? Yes, in the sense that in the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and S...
Op-eds
Know Thy Enemy
The United States is not fighting a war against terror. Terror is an emotional response. Fighting a war against terror makes no more sense than fighting a war against greed or envy. Are...
Op-eds
Symposium: Snatching Saddam
Saddam has been captured. What does this development signify for the Iraq war and the War on Terror? Frontpage Symposium explores the issue with three distinguished guests: James Woolsey, directo...
Op-eds
Hearts and minds
By Ariel Beery There are a number of wars raging around the world right now, but none of them are more important or more pivotal than the war for the hearts and minds of the Muslim/Arab...
Op-eds
True Left Versus the Lunatic Fringe
By Norah Vincent The left is not dead. It isn't dying. It hasn't lost its moral mind. In fact, after nearly a decade of decline and...