Jacob Heilbrunn Profile | The National Interest

Essays

Politics

Israel's Fraying Image

| 05.01.13

There are growing signs of a divergence in American-Israeli relations and interests.

Germany is no longer Europe’s most troublesome player. It’s now an indispensable nation. The power of this transformation is personified by Chancellor Angela Merkel and her delicate political and diplomatic balancing act.

Politics

Samantha and Her Subjects

| 04.19.11

The prophet armed, Samantha Power, has now drafted Obama into her crusade against mass slaughter. Liberal hawks and neocons, reunited. Make way for a profound foreign-policy transformation.

Society

Teuton the Introvert

| 02.23.10

Germany was once the most powerful nation on the Continent. Now it is spiraling toward mediocrity.

Society

Republican Reckoning

| 06.23.09

Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

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Reviews

Society

Beinart's Quest to Save Zionism

| 02.28.12

How can an Israeli PM mobilize U.S. politicians against a U.S. president committed to Israeli interests? Beinart's provocative answer: U.S. Jewish leaders commandeered Jewish organizations and turned them into agencies for Likud interests.

Society

A House That Bismarck Built

| 10.25.11

Jonathan Steinberg’s new biography depicts a Bismarck rife with contradictions. Still, it comes dangerously close to conflating the mad Junker’s cautious conservatism with the führer’s nihilism. There is more to Germany than destiny alone.

Society

Introducing Mr. Trevor-Roper

| 08.24.11

For the great historian Hugh Trevor-Roper—whose poison pen spared no ego and whose toxic overconfidence relegated him to a perpetual almost-ran—refusing to become the false prophet of a grand new theory of history was his greatest triumph.

Politics

Mama Grizzly vs. The Establishment

| 12.16.10

As the GOP's leading contender in 2012, can Sarah Palin channel the optimism of her hero Reagan without abandoning her bromides against the tyranny of the ruling class?

Society

Reflections from the Right

| 10.30.08

The conservative movement is cracking up—just look at three memoirs of former administration officials. These new books may engage in justification and self-aggrandizement, but they do prescribe salves for fixing the conservative experiment.

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Commentary

Politics

Revisiting Israel's Fraying Image

| 06.12.13

Surely it is better to hope for progress than to progress steadily toward hopelessness.

Society

Mosque Anxiety

| 08.09.10

Germany and Indonesia certainly have a radical Islam problem. Stymieing
the construction of mosques here is a surefire way to create one in the
U.S. as well.

Society