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Jihad Archipelago

The battle for the soul of Islam in Southeast Asia is underway. Americans may not be interested in the outcome. But the outcome is interested in us.

There Is No Mystery

A comment on the determined mystification of the Holocaust.

Paradise Denied: The State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe

Of all the remarks philosophers have made about history, few are as simple or powerful as Hegel's comment that history is a butcher's block. It is the blood of innocents that flows most freely from that block, their cries muffled by those who shou

Asia's Rising Middle Class: Not a Force for Change

The ethic that has governed the East Asian Miracle and formed its middle class is antithetical to pluralistic liberalism -- and to change.

O! What a Fall was There: Reflections on the Decline of Britain

Nearly one hundred years ago, Brooks Adams published a short essaycalled "The Decay of England.

Weisberg on Fukuyama's South Africa

Every student of international relations has thought about the question of why world communism fell apart when it did.

Commentary

Lobbyists

The Armenian genocide dispute is just the latest example of the negative influence of ethnic lobbies on U.S. foreign policy.

Blogs

Germany's New Confrontation with the Holocaust

Germany's foreign ministry was far more complicit in the Holocaust than Hollywood would have you believe.

George Will and Israel, Continued

George Will's vociferous defense of Israel stems from a keen sense of history. The Holocaust always looms large.

Books & Reviews

The Willing Misinterpreter

Despite Goldhagen's extraordinary claims, he himself concedes in his unwittingly revealing afterword that he is not presenting much in the way of original research.

Big Ideas, Big Problems

Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.

Revolutionary Nepotism

Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.

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February 12, 2012