The stage is set, the actors have committed their lines to memory, and the curtain is now rising: the Great Iran Debate is on! It's a war story, as so many of our national narratives are these days, one pitting the President of the United States – and the overwhelming...
The vicious murder of the editors and writers of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris has had an effect similar to the hysteria that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: demands that we invade Iraq (again!) and also Syria, as well...
Six months ago, 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, an American convert to Islam living with his parents in Green Township, Ohio, attracted the attention of the FBI. We don't know the reason for their initial interest, although it's likely Cornell's vocal adherence...
The Paris terrorist attacks are an alarming symptom of sickness: a matrix of cultural, economic, and political diseases that, taken together, spell Europe's doom. Can we diagnose the illness, and, perhaps, prescribe a cure? An examination of the European body politic...
It was only natural that "world leaders" would place themselves at the head of the Paris "unity" demonstration held to express outrage at the vicious Charlie Hebdo murders. Daniel Wickham, a student at the London School of Economics, compiled a...
At this point, the justified expressions of outrage and the paeans to the dead have long surpassed the need for duplication. What remains is to ask, with the cold clarity of an observer looking down from a great height: Who profits, and who loses, from the terrorist...
Has anyone noticed how stupid everything is getting? Now of course it could be that I'm just getting crankier as I get older, but I could swear the intelligence level of the political class is dropping precipitously. The evidence seems overwhelming: Exhibit #1 – Marco...
If you're sick of our foreign policy of perpetual war and yet have an instinctive disdain for all things Republican, you have an alternative to Rand Paul in 2016 – Jim Webb. Yes, I know we're all supposed to believe Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination locked...
The progression of the government's case indicting North Korea for hacking Sony's computer system – and revealing the petty ego-trips of Hollywood's glitterrati – was succinctly summed up by computer security expert Jeffrey Carr in a pithy tweet: "NK did it 100%...
In last year's New Year's column I contended that the Iranian nuclear issue is undoubtedly the most important question the United States would be facing in the coming year, and – for once – my prediction turned out to be largely correct. The ongoing negotiations,...
