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Khalidi's Audacity of Hope

Will Obama enforce the law or was his claimed commitment to Israel a feint?

Earlier this month, hosting Benjamin Netanyahu -- the Israeli prime minister he had humiliated back in March -- President Obama was at pains to prove he is not hostile to the Jewish state. In fact, he took umbrage at a reporter’s suggestion that his administration is not committed to what he called the “special bond,” America’s relationship with Israel.

Well...

The Case Against the New Black Panthers

Abigail Thernstrom is wrong to belittle this shocking episode.





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Karl Rove's Mea Culpa

The decision to 'look forward, not back' on Iraq was a profound mistake.

In Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove offered a candid confession. His biggest mistake as a top White House adviser, he wrote, was to endorse the decision not to mount a vigorous defense when Democrats accused President Bush of lying the nation into the invasion of Iraq. After amply demonstrating that those who leveled this shameful charge had themselves...

What We Should Know About China

In that controversial 1978 Harvard graduation address, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presented a thesis which, although it is not so frequently remarked upon, is probably accepted by…

Islam Versus the Jews

The great hostility of the Ayatollah Khomeini for Israel prompts curiosity as to the doctrinal source, if any, of that hostility; and it transpires that,…

Instructing Senator Kennedy

It is not the intention of anyone who seeks also to be a practicing Christian to deal with the obiter dicta of Senator Edward Kennedy…

Death for Gilmore

In the matter of Gary Mark Gilmore, we note the strange behavior, as so often is the case, of the American Civil Liberties Union, which…

And Now Legislative Supremacy

The shift of power from the executive to the legislative branch of government has come with a terrible swiftness, reeling to the mind. It is…

Crossroads

The attention being given to the unemployment figure is the most concentrated since the approach, by Henry Aaron, to a new world record as a…

Galbraith and Inflation

Experiencing Professor John Kenneth Galbraith is always a personal pleasure, though one must be on one’s guard, and the Republic is wise to steel itself…