The Next U.S. President Must Quickly Reassert U.S. Power
To make a good first impression, start by inviting Netanyahu to the White House.
November 3, 2016
Why Arab Liberals Had No Chance
The Arab Spring and the Islamic winter.
Reviewing David Govrin’s The Journey to the Arab Spring: The Ideological Roots of the Middle East Upheaval in Arab Liberal Thought (2014), Tzvi Mazel notes that already in the late 19th century there were Islamic scholars who sought “an appropriate internal religious response to the cultural and technological challenge posed by the West,” some of whom tried to find a theological basis for constitutional government. Their ideas gained little traction, and the recent “Arab Spring” has seen yet another failure of liberalism: