On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. After the vote, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, rose to speak, his voice shaking with anger. “The United States rises to declare,” proclaimed Moynihan, “before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” In his speech, Moynihan recognized the U.N. resolution for what it was: an attack on Israel, and its right to …
A Man Standing
Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism, by Gil Troy (Oxford, 368 pp., $29.95)
In This Issue
Articles
The Right to Bear Arms and Popular Sovereignty
Were I to develop a penchant for masochism and to run for elected office, my opponent would no doubt profit immensely from informing the voters that I was against the ...
Armed, Not Dangerous
Looked at through the dim eyes of the Brady Campaign or any other gang of gun-grabbers, Switzerland should be a post-apocalyptic nightmare of wanton murder, basically Mad Max meets Heidi ...
The Small Presidency
Action is something Americans of both parties demand of their presidents these days. This is natural for Democrats, whose heritage is all action, starting with Franklin Roosevelt and his Hundred ...
Surprise, He’s a Liberal
It was brief.
It’s tempting to stop here, having listed all the commendable aspects of the president’s second inaugural. But that would be uncharitable. So let us also acknowledge that the ...
Features
What Happened at Haymarket?
Timothy Messer-Kruse doesn’t remember her name, but the question she asked in his college classroom a dozen years ago changed his career — and now it may revolutionize everything historians ...
Marriage and Politics
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union ...
Books, Arts & Manners
La Petite Guerre
During the decade after the first Gulf War, many national-security experts concluded that emerging technologies, especially information technologies, had created a “revolution in military affairs” (RMA) that would fundamentally change ...
Creating Tyranny
At the end of World War II, Eastern and Central Europe were “liberated” from Nazism only to see it replaced by a social order installed by the other great totalitarian ...
A Man Standing
On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. After the vote, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador ...
Old School
The most recent ancestors that humanity shares with chimpanzees and bonobos died about 6 million years ago. For almost all of our existence, we humans have lived in small hunter-gatherer ...
Medium, Not Rare
The tale of the whistleblower generally follows a predictable arc. There is the dreadful misbehavior, and the whistleblower’s shamefaced confession of his part in it. The whistle blows. The wrongdoing ...
9/11 Aftermath
I came out of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting procedural about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, thinking that it was the best movie of 2012, but upon further ...
Sections
Letters
Bailout Facts
Mark Calabria’s “An End to Bailouts” (January 28) contains some interesting points, but it also contains a number of errors that substantially weaken the reliability of Mr. Calabria’s advice:
1.) ...
The Week
‐ We wouldn’t be surprised if they lip-synched the oath of office, too.
‐ House Republican leaders have announced that they will raise the debt ceiling enough to let the federal ...
Bethesda Mental Health Clinic
MEMORANDUM
TO: ALL STAFF
FROM: Senior Medical Staff
IN RE: 1,460 Days to Go
Dear Staff:
As the glow fades on the second inaugural of President Obama, and as we all get back to the ...
Inaugural Exegesis
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Poetry
Last Night
If one sits on the steps of Sacré Coeur
to see the city after dusk,
one sees, too, in the cold, each traveler:
the silk-scarved men, distinct with musk;
the ladies ...
Every Man a Criminal
For Chris Matthews, the sob-sister sap who hosts MSNBC’s hilariously misnamed Hardball, President Obama’s inaugural address bore comparison to Lincoln at Gettysburg. Whether>Lincoln would have felt the same is doubtful. ...
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