Are Israel’s ties with the United States starting to resemble the relationship between the old political and economic elites and the Jewish community in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Political philosopher Hannah Arendt pointed out in her classic study of European anti-Semitism that it was …
Read More »Student unrest ratchets up an already tense election year
Dramatic campus protests are injecting an inflammatory new element into an election year that is already threatening to stretch national unity to a breaking point. Tensions spiked late Tuesday following an operation by New York Police Department surge teams to reclaim the Columbia University campus from pro-Palestinian demonstrators …
Read More »Biden’s Electoral College Challenge
President Joe Biden won a decisive Electoral College victory in 2020 by restoring old Democratic advantages in the Rust Belt while establishing new beachheads in the Sun Belt. But this year, his position in polls has weakened on both fronts. The result is that, even this far from …
Read More »Biden: Violent protests ‘not protected’
US President Biden was sharply critical Thursday of aspects of protests that have swept across college campuses nationwide in response to the war in Gaza, condemning vandalism and trespassing even as he defended the right to peacefully demonstrate. “In moments like this, there are always those who rush …
Read More »Kazakhstan and U.S. Strategy
At a time of intensifying great power rivalry, the U.S.-Kazakhstan relationship is becoming increasingly crucial. Central Asia, a vast land-locked area between Russia and China, deserves far more U.S. attention than it currently gets. Greater U.S. engagement with the region can help counter Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Similarly, …
Read More »1968 protests should serve as a warning to today’s Democrats
Democrats are increasingly anxious about their party’s internal divisions over the Israel-Hamas war, which are threatening to hurt their chances in November. The eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses and the ensuing clashes with police portend bad times ahead. While the demands of student protesters vary somewhat from school to school, they are …
Read More »DeSantis meets with Trump to help with 2024 election
Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump seem ready to put their feud from the Republican presidential primary aside — for real this time. The two Florida Republicans met in Miami Sunday morning to talk about how they could work together during the general election, according to …
Read More »How a Bureaucratic Change Helped Save Israel
One obscure administrative reform enabled the successful, coordinated defense of Israel against the recent Iranian attack. An obscure bureaucratic change enabled the extremely successful, coordinated defense of Israel against the recent Iranian attack. President Donald Trump’sJanuary 2021 decision to transfer Israel to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) ensured the …
Read More »NATO’s Real Problem is Europe, Not The U.S.
American power is overstretched, and the future of NATO and Europe itself depends on the continent’s ability to adapt. Following the organization’s seventy-fifth anniversary, the conventional wisdom about NATO is that it is threatened by growing U.S. “isolationism.” Critics say that former President Trump could withdraw the United …
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