The Stakes of Hizballah’s Next War with Israel
Peril and opportunity.
November 7, 2017
What the Saudi Purge Means for the Kingdom, and America
Centralization of power, perhaps as a prerequisite to reform.
This past weekend, Riyadh announced the arrest of dozens of high-ranking officials and prominent businessmen, including eleven princes—all of whom are cousins of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now second in power only to his father, King Salman. Elliott Abrams connects the move to a generational shift: like every Saudi monarch since 1953, Salman is a son of the kingdom’s founder ibn Saud; after Salman’s death, the crown will pass, for the first time, to Mohammed, one of ibn Saud’s grandsons. Abrams sees in the arrests an attempt to centralize powers that are now distributed over hundreds of royal cousins, and considers the implications.
November 7, 2017
What the Saudi Purge Means for the Kingdom, and America
Centralization of power, perhaps as a prerequisite to reform.
A Two-State Solution for the Spanish-Catalonian Conflict?
Or does such logic apply only to Israel?
Without Enduring Moral Principles, Democracy Cannot Flourish
Religion and the crisis of the democratic state of mind.
In a Texas Philosophy Department, Raising the Subject of the Treatment of Homosexuals in Muslim Lands Is Forbidden
“I’m not out to persuade you.”