The New Republic

July 15, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Peter Beinart’s one-state solution

If taken seriously, it could lead to a final solution

July 12, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?

On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...

September 21, 2016 | Clifford D. May

“Political correctness” aims at a new target

In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...

May 25, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Another Eulogy

Odds are you’ve never heard of Marco Pannella, the longtime leader of the Italian Radical Party, who died last week in Rome.  He was 86, quite surprising for one of the country’s...

January 6, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Atlantic |

ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum

Evidence suggests that the Islamic State's power has been declining for months

October 21, 2014 |

FDD Welcomes Oren Kessler as New Deputy Director of Research

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed Oren Kessler this week as its newest Deputy Di...

June 3, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Obama’s Performance At West Point

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...

May 5, 2014 | Jonathan Kay |

The Troubling Rise of American ‘Withdrawalism’

Eastern Ukraine is falling to pieces. Suicide bombings remain epidemic in Iraq. Much of eastern Syria now is controlled by an al-Qaeda spin-off group that calls itself “Islamic State of Ira...

January 30, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement

‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...

January 9, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How A Weak Iran Deal Makes Us All Less Safe and War More Likely

The debate over whether Israel would launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to blunt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions has always loomed large in the mind of Western policymakers...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

The Metaphysics of Jailbreaks

In the mid-seventies, when I was reporting from Rome for The New Republic, jailbreaks were commonplace.  Red Brigades terrorists and other such broke out of prisons throughout the c...

January 28, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Dangerous Mix of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Americanism

Even in the supposedly redemptive days of Barack Obama, Americans and Israelis traveling abroad have grown sadly accustomed to outbursts of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and worse. But...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

December 28, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Books: Stand-Outs in Their Field

IN his 1980 autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 1960s American Jewish counter-cultural revolutionary Abbie Hoffman – who participated i...

December 12, 2012 | James Kirchick Forward

South Africa’s ANC Lurches Into Anti-Semitism

Ruling Party Tarnishes Nelson Mandela's Legacy of Tolerance

October 8, 2012 | |

In Defeat, Georgia’s President Confounds his Critics

Mikheil Saakashvili's conciliatory reaction to his party's loss in the election seems to prove his critics wrong.

October 2, 2012 | |

Georgia’s Electoral Showdown

Emotions are running high as Georgians vote in a watershed parliamentary election.

September 14, 2012 | James Kirchick Index on Censorship

Islam Blasphemy Riots Now Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The United States is the world’s undisputed king of culture. No country’s film industry can rival Hollywood; no nation’s musical artists sell more records worldwide than America...

August 24, 2012 | |

A Perverse Quid Pro Quo

Sixty-five years after the end of World War II, it's reassuring to know that Germany has 'no place for Neonazis.' A more pressin

July 27, 2012 |

A ‘History-Cleansing’ Campaign

The arrest in Budapest last week of Laszlo Csatary - a 97-year-old former police officer accused of Holocaust-era war crimes...