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...
The New Republic
Paper Trail Leads to Damascus
In December 2010, the New York Times' Robert F. Worth wrote an article about the newspaper Al-Akhbar, "the most dynamic and daring in Lebanon, and perhaps anywhere in the Arab world." The pa...
Op-eds
Bradley Manning is No Gay Hero
From 1916, when the United States military first expressly prohibited homosexuals, until the 1993 passage of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), gay men and women were considered psychologi...
Op-eds
Peter Beinart’s Crisis of Oversimplifying American Jews
Late in Peter Beinart’s “The Crisis of Zionism,” the author cites a statistic that reveals much about his unsophisticated worldview. Writing about the alleged estrangement of yo...
Op-eds
Gary Sick, Discredited but Honored
The so-called "October Surprise" plot that briefly enthralled the American public twenty years ago is one of the most influential political conspiracy theories in U.S. history. As the story goes,...
Op-eds
Taxes, Real Cash Money, and Corruption
We’re in Italy, where the new government — headed by the distinguished economist Mario Monti — has three big initiatives: make it easier to fire workers, raise taxes on everyone...
Op-eds
Hungary’s Prime Minister Bites the Hand that Feeds Him
On March 15, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stood before nearly 100,000 of his fellow countrymen in Budapest and declared, “Hungarians will not live as foreigners dictate.&rdq...
Op-eds
Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister
How one of Europe’s most celebrated anti-communists become the bad boy of the continent.
Op-eds
No to a Grand Bargain with Iran
What if the increasing hostility between Iran and the West is just a giant misunderstanding? What if, far from being the result of deep ideological disputes and inherently incompatible worldviews...
Op-eds
Antinuclear Assassinations
On January 11 in Tehran, two men on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car carrying Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. Seconds later, the car exploded, killing both Roshan and his driver. The murde...
Op-eds
A Radical’s Radical
In early May, a little over a week after President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Texas congressman Ron Paul staked out his position on the man who plotted...
Op-eds
A Case of Leftist ‘McCarthyism’?
One of the most notorious newspapers ever published in America was The Spotlight, founded in 1975 by white supremacist Willis Carto. For many years the country's premier hate rag, it peaked...
Op-eds
What Are Ron Paul’s Liberal Fans Thinking?
For anyone moderately familiar with Ron Paul’s record, it shouldn't come as a surprise that a litany of racists, anti-Semites, conspiracy-theorists, and militia members...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Tip the Scales in Syria
Obama must do more to force out the tyrant Assad
Op-eds
Ron Paul’s World
Earlier this week, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, said that he would not vote for his fellow presidential candidate Ron Paul should Paul become the Republican nominee. The immediate cau...
Op-eds
Havel Was Friend of Israel and Jews
Czech Playwright-Turned-President Led Region to Right Path
Op-eds
The Company Ron Paul Keeps
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. “He&...
Op-eds
The Happy Warrior
My memories of Christopher Hitchens
Op-eds
Despite Criticism of Israel, Hitchens was Ardent Foe of Anti-Semitism
Not long ago, I told an older colleague of my admiration for Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American author, journalist and public intellectual who finally succumbed to esophageal cancer Thursda...
Op-eds
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’
In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...