‘Poster Girls for Jihad’
Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic are girls who fled from Vienna to Raqqa, the town in Syria where the Islamic State has its headquarters and enforces sharia. Born in Vienna, they are ...
The Met’s Bad Taste Dressed Up as Principle
The Met is putting on an opera called The Death of Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was an elderly Jewish man with physical disabilities that necessitated using a wheel-chair. He was on a ...
A Surrender to Fantasy
“Do you not see, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?” is one of my favorite quotes. It comes from the long-ago days when Sweden was a ...
A Retreat as Disastrous as Yalta
The moral, intellectual, and now military disarray of the Western democracies is blinding. The beheading of American, British and French hostages by brutes from Islamic State is filmed and shown ...
‘You’ll remember this for a long time.’
No novelist or historian could sum up the entire experience of Communism in so short and perfect a form as this report of just one hundred and five words taken ...
Scotland’s Retro Moment
The move for Scottish independence always seemed retrograde. Whatever did the Scots need a state for? For a long time they have been a very recognizable and successful nation thanks to being ...
Great Britain, R.I.P.?
Great Britain might no longer exist a few days from now. On September 18 the Scots are holding a referendum to decide whether to break away from the union with England ...
The Standard Middle East Strategy: Bewilderment
“Strip Tease” is the title of an article I wrote about Gaza for The New Republic way back in 1988. Tidying up my papers, I found it and read something that ...
Same as It Ever Was, Only Worse
“Strip Tease” is the title of an article I wrote about Gaza for The New Republic way back in 1988. Tidying up my papers, I found it and read something ...
Dangerous Breeding Ground
Some will say that Benjamin Netanyahu is wise to have let Hamas off the hook. In war relentless but in victory magnanimous, was Winston Churchill’s advice. This was applicable to ...