Don Williams 
While sitting on an outdoor bench at Bard College on Thursday, I witnessed a procession of students making their way across the campus. Led by a young white man with a bullhorn and a kaffiyeh around his neck, the group chanted slogans like “Long live the intifada” and “No peace on stolen land.” They carried …
Since William F. Buckley’s publication of “God and Man at Yale” in 1951, conservatives have claimed that prestigious American universities are hubs of Marxist indoctrination. However, the idea that elite universities are sites of leftist brainwashing is simply a myth. In fact, the most popular major at universities like Harvard and Yale is economics, hardly …
Last summer, just a few weeks after Cassidy Hutchinson’s public testimony on Donald Trump’s response to the 2020 election loss, the January 6 committee held a meeting with Jennifer Moore, the FBI administrator overseeing intelligence in the bureau’s D.C. office during the lead-up to the Capitol attack. The committee sought to understand why the federal …
Kevin McCarthy, the former speaker of the House, lost his position because a faction of Republican representatives felt he wasn’t willing enough to engage in political combat. They believed that McCarthy lacked the resolve to use tactics like the debt ceiling or government shutdown to extract concessions from the Democratic Senate and President Joe Biden. …
A truism of national security is that leaders face an agonizing choice where neither option is favorable. In times of war, this dilemma becomes even more excruciating. Presently, the leaders of Israel are confronted with such a challenge: hostages. Hamas has initiated a war against Israel, triggered by the heinous acts committed by the Gaza-based …
The president believes that starting with reassurance is the best way to shape Israeli strategy and build trust. Jim Watson / AFP / Getty October 17, 2023, 3:48 PM ET Tomorrow, Joe Biden will embark on a trip to Israel, making him the second American president to visit an active war zone not under his …
When Chinese officials and elites criticize Japan, they often mention the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan after invading China in the 1930s. In recent years, Chinese leaders like Xi Jinping have utilized the memory of World War II to justify their nation’s current assertiveness. When Japanese politicians pay their respects at a Tokyo shrine that …
Did Israel Avert a Hamas Massacre? That was the question posed by a 2014 Vanity Fair exposé. The report detailed a plot by Hamas to attack and kidnap Israelis using underground tunnels during the vulnerable period of Rosh Hashanah. The operation aimed to not only massacre civilians but also hold soldiers and civilians as bargaining …
When Judge Tanya Chutkan of the federal district court for D.C. was assigned the trial of Donald Trump for his attempt to steal the election, according to the journalist Robert Draper, she asked a friend to pray for her. Chutkan’s decision today to impose a gag order on the former president, her most consequential pronouncement …
Thirty-four years ago, in June 1989, Poland woke up to a surprising turn of events. Despite a voting process that favored the Communist Party, years of propaganda, and control over the military and police, the democratic opposition emerged victorious, forming the first non-Communist government in Soviet-occupied Europe. Over the next decade, Poland gradually decentralized the …