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After years of railing at the suppression of “non-‘politically correct’” speech on college campuses, conservatives have turned the tables on their left-wing foes. With the vast majority of Americans supporting U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, it is now students on the left who find their speech unpopular. Have the conservative free speech champions now embraced […]

See the response from Noam Chomsky and the counter-response from Jeffrey C. Isaac The huge slaughter. . . in East Timor is (at least) comparable to the terrible atrocities that can plausibly be attributed to Milosevic in the earlier wars in Yugoslavia, and responsibility is far easier to assign, with no complicating factors. If proponents […]

In his address to the nation Thursday night, President Bush made several impassioned pleas for Americans not to blame Arabs or Muslims for the terrorist attacks. “I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here,” he said. “No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or […]

“U.S. Warns It May Skip Conference On Racism” — The Was hington Post, July 27, 2001 “U.S. rejects accord on germ warfare; Move wipes out 7 years of negotiations” — Houston Chronicle, July 26, 2001 “178 Nations Reach A Climate Accord; U.S. Only Looks On” — The New York Times, July 24, 2001 “U.S. at […]

It was only a few days into the tense balloting for Labour candidate for the new position of Mayor of London in February. At the Town Hall in Ealing — a sandstone castle in the midst of this mall-heavy West London neighborhood — a small meeting had been booked in a basement room. Ken Livingstone, […]

The Idea Log is a new column by Chris Mooney. It will appear on TAP Online every Tuesday. After attending last Saturday’s 7,500 person peace march in downtown Washington, D.C., sponsored by “International A.N.S.W.E.R.” (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), I was left with a rather odd conclusion: The protesters hadn’t watched enough […]

In the 1950s a gem of an article appeared called “The Fluke That Saved Formosa.” The idea was that an outbreak of fluke-borne schistosomiasis among Chinese troops, then preparing to invade Taiwan, saved the island from communism. In November 2000 an election fluke to end all election flukes handed the presidency to George W. Bush, […]

In Israel next week, the unimaginable may occur. Ariel Sharon, the pugnacious, aging war hero whose unrelenting hawkishness has long embarrassed and endangered Israelis, will likely be elected prime minister in the February 6 elections. In fact, he seems set to trounce the peace camp’s candidate, Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Just four months ago, Sharon […]

CAIRO, EGYPT — We have heard much of the theocratic temptation that lures Egypt into the arms of those who would render it an Islamic utopia. Almost weekly, we hear of students in Egypt’s crowded universities rising up to protest some new offense to the faith. The government, desperate to maintain order, throws the Islamic […]