July 21, 2017

Wanted: An Afghanistan Policy

From start to finish, it took fewer than 45 months for the U.S. to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The U.S. entered into a war in Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001, and we’re still there, 190 months later.  After tw...

June 6, 2017

Honoring Terrorism in New York City

As the financial and media capital of the free world, the New York metropolitan area has long attracted terrorists, from the anarchists who struck Wall Street with a horse-drawn cart bomb in 1920 to the jihadists responsible for 9/11. But increa...

January 14, 2017

Is Judith Butler the New Edward Said?

Of all the non-Middle East specialists writing on the Middle East, few have been as prolific or as indecipherable as Judith Butler. More than an academic, she has become a pop culture figure. In an age of identity politics, Butler’s identity as...

December 30, 2016

Jimmy Carter’s Lifelong Pursuit of a Palestinian State

Perhaps sensing that he would soon have to relinquish his position as America’s worst ex-president, Jimmy Carter reminded everyone last month how he earned the title with yet another call for the U.S. to recognize a Palestinian state. Carter...

September 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s ‘unethical amnesia’

The late New York Times columnist William Safire famously called Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar.”  Others have called her a “pathological” liar.  Maybe what really ails her is what two researchers are calling ...

February 25, 2016

Fighting the BDS Movement

Is it possible for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to be anything other than anti-Semitic? On January 7, 140 people in Rochester, New York attended a lecture on the topic by Miriam F. Elman, Associate Professor of Political ...