Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean
After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...
Salman Rushdie
Turkey – Where Everyone Believes God is On Their Side
Six days after Turkey reluctantly joined the US war effort against ISIS with its ...
Op-eds
The Fine Line Between Free Speech and Provocation
Rights are like muscles. If not exercised, they atrophy. Freedom of speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, is the most fundamental of rights. Without it, how do you even defend your o...
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Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87
German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...
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From Salman Rushdie to Charlie Hebdo
A quarter-century of Western fecklessness led from the former to the latter.
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Reacting to the Massacre in Paris
What’s the proper response? What should we be reflecting on? Some ideas.
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Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
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An Assassination Targeting Europe’s Freedom
Berlin — The horrific Islamist-animated terrorist attack today in Paris resulted in the murders of twelve people. The Islamists could be heard on video yelling “Allahu A...
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The War on Free Speech
Last Friday, in his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama scolded Sony Pictures. Cancelling the theatrical release of “The Interview” following cyber-attacks from North Ko...
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The Man And The Myth
Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...
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The Real Moazzam Begg
Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg was arrested earlier today as part of raid conducted by counterterrorism officials in the UK. Begg has spent most of his time living in the UK following his re...
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St. Patrick’s Day with Edmund Burke
What Burke and Conor Cruise O’Brien can teach us about preventing the triumph of evil.
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A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
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From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
A shorter distance than one might have hoped.
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Analysis: Hezbollah’s Lethal Anti-Semitism
There are a great many reasons whirling around within European foreign ministries to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Compelling arguments include the Lebanese Shi’ite group&rsqu...
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Sinister Trend in Publishing
Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?
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Confronting Islamic Intimidation
In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie by Martin Scorsese, based on a novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, caused a storm of protests. Many Christian groups foun...
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Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...
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In the Shadow of Ahmadinejad’s Hotel
“A new world order” is what some news accounts say Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been calling for during his current visit to the opening of the United Nations Genera...
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Living with Islam
Begin with Western strength and confidence in our principles.