Picture Imperfect
Would anyone argue today that the best way to stabilize the Balkans is reviving the Federal State of Yugoslavia?
Whether a united post-Communist Yugoslavia was a realistic political solution to Balkan ...
Asking for Extremism
On Sunday, October 8, Belgians went to the polls to renew their local governments. The event was understandably little noticed by a world preoccupied with North Korea’s test of a ...
The War of the Jews
In the war of words against Israel, one series of charges is frequently made: The Jews close ranks to defend the Jewish state, even when Israel’s conduct is indefensible. In ...
Everything You Know About the Recent Mideast War Is Wrong
Every war generates its myths, and the recent war in Lebanon is no exception. This war’s myths are that Israel lost and Hezbollah won; that this was due to Israel’s ...
Our “Grievance” Problem
Scholars of the Enlightenment should be in high demand these days. For the political and media responses to the plot to bomb up to ten U.S. airliners in mid air ...
Disarm or Death
The current conflict in Lebanon proves that violent extremist groups cannot be constructively engaged. Rather, extremism must be confronted with a firm policy of zero tolerance.
When Israel withdrew from Lebanon ...
Apathy & Inconclusiveness
For Israel, this could have been a new dawn. Though not, admittedly, of the Age of Aquarius.
By 2006, voters had grown tired of the two visions that for decades vied ...
Not All Is Lost in Europe
Some are fond of saying that Munich’s spirit– the irresistible urge to appease dictators that brought catastrophe onto Europe in 1938–is alive and well in Europe. And judging by the ...
Daned If You Do…
Not everything that is right or legal is necessarily wise.
Perhaps it was not so wise to reproduce, all over the European press, twelve Danish cartoons depicting Islam’s prophet Mohammad in ...