Misreading Tehran
Suzanne MaloneyA generation ago, in the aftermath of a stunning upheaval on the streets of Iran and the implosion of the formerly intimate relationship between Washington and Tehran, American policy...
View ArticleIran Update: Khamenei on the Way Out?
Writing on this site on June 17, I indicated that Ayatollah Khamenei had decided to interfere in the presidential election because he and his backers (the intelligence services and the Revolutionary...
View ArticleYalta Redux
Jacob HeilbrunnFew charges are more volatile than that of a "sellout" by the United States and Western Europe of the Central and East European powers. The accusation carries the heaviest historical...
View ArticleGoldstone Speaks Out
Jacob HeilbrunnRichard Goldstone, who has a firm handshake and a steely gaze, is not someone who minces words. "Absolutely untrue" is how he dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
View ArticleChallenging Israel
Amjad AtallahSometimes it's easier to face down your adversaries than it is your allies when they challenge your national-security interests. The United States is now in the very difficult position of...
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Made in America
Carl J. Schramm INNOVATION AND the founding of the United States were good for one another. The American Revolution and the subsequent creation of the Constitution were in part byproducts of the...
View ArticlePartisans, Reviewed
Jacob HeilbrunnStrange things are happening in the intellectual world. Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of the NewRepublic, has been steadily denouncing Israel, a country he once defended with equal...
View ArticleThe Gaza Disaster
Jacob HeilbrunnIsrael’s ill-fated commando attack on the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara, the sixth boat in a self-styled “freedom flotilla” which set sail on Sunday, in international waters near the Gaza...
View ArticleIsolating Iran
Nikolas K. GvosdevU. S. diplomacy dodged two bullets in the run-up to Wednesday’s Iran sanctions vote in the Security Council. The first was that the fallout from the Gaza flotilla would either...
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America Under the Caesars
Michael LindAndrew J. Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 304 pp., $25.00. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American...
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Globalist TV
Jacob HeilbrunnForget about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. This week the media is really obsessed about “This Week.” Christiane Amanpour made her debut on Sunday morning as the anchor of the ABC program....
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An Israeli Weighs in on the Flotilla
Benny MorrisLast month I interviewed Israel’s president, Shimon Peres, and the piece, 6,800 words long, duly appeared in The Tablet, a Jewish-American online magazine. A minuscule part of the interview...
View ArticlePunditry at the Drive-Thru
David Rieff Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (2006; repr., New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 320 pp., $14.95.Peter...
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The Huntington Thesis and Turkey's New Role
Robert W. MerryIt has been eighteen years since Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington published his famous essay “The Clash of Civilizations’’ in Foreign Affairs, later expanded into a book. Although...
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Spengler's Ominous Prophecy
Robert W. MerryA QUESTION haunts America: Is it in decline on the world scene? Foreign-policy discourse is filled with commentary declaring that it is. Some—Parag Khanna’s work comes to mind—suggests...
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