Author Archives: Charles Glass

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…

The spectacle of a European or North American hostage – shackled and blindfolded – has been a recurring sight in…

Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and “finish the job against al…

It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan’s puffed-up armies learned that lesson in June…

David Cameron spoke with unusual candour for a British prime minister a few days ago when he told university students…

(with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1941) In Paris at the Shakespeare and…

Dear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military intervention in Libya is an important warning from a…

The Libyan dictator is resisting the popular forces ranged against him in ways that his counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt…

Evidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire conspired illegally with private investigators to tap telephones and hack into…

One of Israel’s finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, “Just as there is no such thing as…