As the twentieth century drew to a close, pundits glowed over the end of totalitarianism and the inevitable march of democracy. The collapse of the Soviet...
Is self-hatred a psychologically tenable concept? Isn’t self-hatred inconsistent with self-love, surely a most fundamental human instinct? Stated in Freudian terms, self-hatred contradicts the id and...
Yehoshaphat Harkabi literally wrote the book on Arab attitudes toward Israel and the Jews. But he utterly failed to understand his own observations. Benjamin Netanyahu seems...
The present writer, an American-born citizen and former officer in the United States Air Force, hereby offers an unsolicited endorsement of Senator Ted Cruz for the...
This is a slightly abridged version of an essay I wrote the month after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995. Nothing serious has yet...
To begin to understand why Muslims are backward, consider this passage from G. E. Von Grunebaum’s Modern Islam (1962):
War is the business of warriors, not of Prime Ministers preoccupied with PR ratings. Sun Tzu would have had such PMs castrated. A lesson in military...
The term Western civilization was very much the creation of American intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century. The term denoted the world outlook that...
Since Israel is at war, it behooves us to examine and convey to our fellow-countrymen what great military leaders and thinkers have said about war and...
Israel was accused of using disproportional force in response to Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in the Second Lebanese War. It may therefore be of interest to consider...