Pope John Paul II

September 29, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Congress Joins European Allies in Targeting Erdogan’s Far-Right Partners

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on September 23 that includes an amendment requiring the secretary of state to submit a report assessing whether Turkey’s Grey Wolves — a far-right militant...

March 11, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir

Catholic Church in Turkey Attacked – Again

A lone gunman...

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 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...

July 9, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

How Assad’s Fall Will Lay Ruin to the Alawis’ Once-in-a-Millennium Promised Land

A small, marginalized people, kicked around the Middle East for centuries by Muslim empires, finally carves out an independent home for itself on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. But life...

March 14, 2012 | Michael Ledeen National Review Online |

Re: Let Syria Be

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Andy and I have moved...

June 15, 2011 |

Italy@War

Cleaning Up the Garbage

June 15, 2011 |

Obama’s America Is September 10th America

This is June 2008. That means it marks the ten-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s indictment. He was first charged by my old office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Sou...

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...

July 12, 2010 | Agota Kuperman Faster, Please! |

Revolution, Iranian and Otherwise

Tell the truth: you don’t really know what a revolution looks like, do you? Chances are that if anybody asked you, you’d conjure up some picture including the storming of the B...

September 10, 2008 |

Machiavelli on Modern Leadership

Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the eminent minds of the Italian Renaissance, spent much of a long and active lifetime trying to determine and understand what...

August 14, 2008 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

War and Democracy

For many centuries, it was taken for granted that no modern country could move from dictatorship to democracy without considerable violence. The first wave of democratic revolution–the last...

July 4, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Cabinda: The “Forgotten Conflict” America Can’t Afford to Forget

Because of the sense of urgency repeatedly communicated by this column as well as the parallel efforts of other "Africa hands," the precarious situation of Nigeria – which I have described...

April 20, 2005 | Indianapolis Star |

Benedict Should Face Off with Persecutors of his Flock

By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pontiff, the new Pope Benedict XVI fell in the crosshair of a highly politicized media around the world, a...

April 6, 2005 | |

The Pope of Freedom

By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la...

April 6, 2005 | Clifford D. May

John Paul’s Final Victory

The threat posed by Islamist extremism was not widely recognized prior to September 11, 2001. And, after 9/11, Pope John Paul II was too frail to energetically address it. But what the P...