Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism, by Charles Hill This book is part of a Hoover Institution project styled the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, the purpose of which is “a deeper understanding of the struggle in Islam between Muslims keen to protect the rule […]
Archives for January 2012
Vaclav Havel, RIP
The world lost a true hero in December with the passing of Vaclav Havel, the first post-communist president of Czechoslovakia, whose efforts on behalf of human freedom are legendary, richly deserving of the Nobel Prize, for either Peace or Literature or both. How ironic that his death coincided with that of his complete opposite, Kim […]
Political Retreat
We are witnessing a slow, steady retreat from victory in the Middle East and, I fear, a prelude to significantly more conflict down the road and the unfortunate loss of more American lives. Why? Because of the political imperative of troop withdrawals to accommodate the political timeline of the Obama administration. Is there another possible […]
This Will Hurt
In November I closed by indicating that I would follow up with some thoughts about our cultural trend in the direction of Europe and on how difficult our choices will be in diverting ourselves from this disastrous path. Over the holidays I revisited a 1995 collection of essays edited by Digby Anderson for National Review […]