Tehran’s Hubris
“For all of Iran’s success in cultivating militant groups across the Middle East, there are tangible signs that it has overreached.”
June 8, 2022
When Columbia University’s President Welcomed the Nazi Ambassador to Campus
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning college president’s troubling silence during World War II.
Nicholas Murray Butler served as president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945. During that time, as Matthew Wills writes, he also acquired national fame as a scholar and political figure; among other things, he ran for vice-president on the Republican ticket in 1912, and in 1931 he won a Nobel Prize—shared with Jane Addams—for helping to negotiate the Kellogg-Briand Pact, in which France, the U.S., and Germany renounced war. But as Wills points out, Butler’s attitude toward Nazism has left a shadow over his legacy.
June 8, 2022
America’s Post-Religious Right
“The new secular conservatives and the old religious right are bound together in an uneasy partnership.”
Israel Resumes Offshore Natural-Gas Exploration
Europe can no longer rely on imported Russian gas.
Warren Harding’s Zionism
The 29th president was largely apathetic toward American Jewish causes, but remained proudly supportive of the Zionist movement.
When Columbia University’s President Welcomed the Nazi Ambassador to Campus
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning college president’s troubling silence during World War II.