It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
World War I
On Russia, Where the Past Is Never Past
Today on TAP: The Wagner Group mutiny re-enacted aborted coups of yore.
Remember World War I
Like most American spectators watching this slow-motion train wreck of a budget disaster, I have assumed that at the last minute the damsel would be pulled off the track of the oncoming train. Somehow, the Republicans would appreciate the stakes, a compromise (albeit on sickeningly Republican terms) would be reached, and the nation would be […]
Terror and Liberalism
The present war, if that is the correct word, may very well be, as President Bush has observed, a war of a new kind—the “first war of the twenty-first century.” But in one important respect, the present war also appears to be—and this, too, the president has hinted at indirectly—a war of an old kind, […]

