Robert Jackson

January 3, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Daughter of Hitler’s War Minister to be Honored with German-Jewish Award

Hilde Schramm, who lives in Berlin, was a former Green Party politician in the city. In 1994, she founded the Zurückgeben Foundation, whose name can be translated as “restitution” or “to give back.”

July 21, 2015 | |

Taking the Iran Deal Disaster Seriously

The best approach to Iran in the wake of President Obama’s deal is to recognize the complex nature of the problem, and the absolute need for a well-considered and comprehensive approach. Th...

February 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

War Crimes and Punishment

“To the justice of the firing squad!” That was the toast proposed by Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill over dinner in 1943 in Tehran. They were meeting for the first time and...

June 14, 2011 | Human Events

FISA Reform Is Vital to Stopping the Next Terror Plot, Not the Last One

Thanks to a testimonial error that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is now undertaking to clarify, a confusing turn has been taken in the debate over reforming “FISA” --...

May 16, 2011 |

‘Here’s to al-Qaeda’

Nearly 20 years ago, I asked the late William Kunstler about his philosophy of lawyering. A flamboyant leftist who proudly represented jihadists just as he proudly represented many other anti-Ame...

July 13, 2007 |

The ACLU Loses in Court

The American Civil Liberties Union's Steven Shapiro is one of the best lawyers in the United States. Still, he was flat wrong when he told the New York Times that a federal appeals court&#03...

March 7, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Phantom Ministers and the Spirit of Democracy

About six months ago, writing in the lead-up to the second round of the presidential election in the rather ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo, I used this column space to note: ...

October 20, 2006 | The New York Sun

Pragmatism Trumps Suicide

Judge Richard A. Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, is one of America's most prolific intellectuals and legal philosophers. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, his power...

September 15, 2006 | The New Criterion

The New Juristocracy

From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government...

May 17, 2006 | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Data-mining is the President’s Duty

The latest outbreak of controversy over Bush administration efforts to protect our nation from terrorist attack starkly demonstrates that the left and civil liberties extremists are determined to...

February 16, 2006 |

Checked and Unbalanced

George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.

January 29, 2006 |

How to ‘Connect the Dots’

Well, for one thing, you use surveillance.

March 3, 2005 |

National Security Comes First

Jose Padilla happens to be a U.S. citizen. He is also, however, alleged by the executive branch to be an unlawful enemy combatant who came here from the headquarters of an enemy against which we...