By Offering the Palestinians Something for Nothing, the Trump Administration Starts Off on the Wrong Foot
More sticks, not more carrots, are what’s needed.
March 22, 2017
America’s Road Ahead in Syria
The U.S. is fighting the wrong war in the Middle East.
Since it first began fighting Islamic State (IS) in 2014, Washington has been conducting its campaign based on a series of assumptions: that IS poses the region’s most serious threat to the U.S.; that IS can be defeated by dislodging it from the key cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria; that the U.S. must cooperate with Russia and Iran in fighting IS; and that al-Qaeda in Syria is a secondary threat that can be contained by airstrikes. In a detailed report, Jennifer Cafarella, Kimberly Kagan, and Frederick W. Kagan argue that every one of these assumptions is false. Furthermore, they contend, although the Trump administration, by removing excessive restraints on attacking the enemy, has improved tactically on the approach of the Obama administration, it is maintaining the same flawed strategy.
March 22, 2017
America’s Road Ahead in Syria
The U.S. is fighting the wrong war in the Middle East.
The Six-Day War and the West German Left’s Turn to Anti-Semitism
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, anti-Zionism never strayed far from hatred of Jews.
Norman Podhoretz’s Once-Controversial Memoir, 50 Years On
Making It.
A New Play Reveals the Thread Connecting Fascism, Moral Relativism, and Post-Modern Intellectual Decadence
Paul de Man, the man.