Now is the Arab Spring become Syrian winter. Yet Syria faces not simply an uprising against dictatorship but a civil…
Continue reading →Reading, Writing, and Rupert
The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and temporal, are in a spin over reports that…
Continue reading →Lame Horses and Crooked Jockeys: The Republican Nomination Derby
Mitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2012. Between now and…
Continue reading →Hang the Cyber-Pirates
The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising dinner of the city’s…
Continue reading →Likudniks
You have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be as smooth as Labor’s grandees, but they…
Continue reading →Operation Enduring Operation
Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the dragon, he went home.…
Continue reading →An Expat Named Superman
There were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States has slain Public Enemy Number One, and…
Continue reading →Bin Laden was no longer a force for most Arabs
The speaker of Sudan’s parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, may not have spoken for the entire Arab world when he condemned…
Continue reading →Leave Syria to the Syrians
This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen…
Continue reading →Photographers: The First Casualties of War
When journalists die in some foreign field, they die for you. Without them, your knowledge of the world in which…
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