by Bruce S. Thronton
FrontPage Magazine
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s “chiding” of Israel, as the Washington Postput it, was a strange performance, so muddled in its ignorance of fact and logic that one wonders if the Secretary was attempting some rhetorical misdirection to lull our enemies into complacency. Continue reading “Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Continue reading “The Arab Winter Approaches”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings began, remains an ominous model for where these uprisings will end. Continue reading “Tunisian Election and the Read to Caliphate”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Once upon a time, loud dissent, filibustering in the Senate, and gridlock in the House were as democratic as apple pie. Continue reading “Democracy’s New Discontents”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has introduced in the House of Representatives the UN Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act. Continue reading “Defund the UN”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The fall of Muammar Gaddafi is making some in the West giddy with the usual “Arab Spring” wishful visions of democracy and freedom flourishing throughout the Muslim Middle East, even as the last binge of democratic intoxication, the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, has left the hangover of a newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood, increasing assaults on Christian Copts, growing anti-Americanism, and terrorist attacks on Israel originating in Egypt and including Egyptian citizens among the attackers. Continue reading “Liberating Libya for Jihadists”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The continuing stalemate over raising the debt ceiling is provoking a lot of voters into Mercutio’s “a pox on both your houses” response. Continue reading “Principle and the Possible”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
Apart from celebratory statements applauding what looks like to us democratic “people’s revolutions” against tyrannous autocrats, the uprisings sweeping across the Muslim Middle East have created great uncertainty for policy-makers as they try to calculate a response. Continue reading “The Fog of Revolution”
Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The outbreak of protests and rebellion throughout the Middle East have quickly generated an orthodox narrative: When people suffering under brutal autocrats and dictators have finally risen up to satisfy the innate human longing for freedom and democracy, we should support these aspirations on moral grounds. Continue reading “Foreign Policy Charity Should Start at Home”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry’s recent essay for The Wall Street Journal. For Kerry, the rebels in Libya are the same as those in Egypt, “peacefully demanding freedom and dignity.” Continue reading “The Secularist Delusion”