Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: A Note on Cüppers (Russell A. Berman)

In this brief interview, Martin Cüppers refers to Islamic antisemitism in Germany as a “reimport.” That terse designation builds on his core thesis that during the 1930s Nazi Germany exported its particular brand of antisemitism, with all its uncompromising viciousness, to the Arab world, where it spread and festered and eventually came to define the …

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Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals (Niall Ferguson)

In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism. By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler was still six years away from power in Germany and 13 years …

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There Is a Path to Victory in Ukraine: The Delusions and Dangers of Defeatist Voices in the West (Dmytro Kuleba)

It was almost two years ago that Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As another winter of war arrives, voices skeptical of the country’s prospects are growing louder—not in diplomatic meetings or military planning sessions, but rather in news reports and in expert commentary. Most do not openly argue that Ukraine should simply give …

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How Were the Universities Lost? (Victor Davis Hanson)

After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more …

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Conflicts for a New Century (Thomas H. Henriksen)

America is at war—an undeclared war Washington is trying to conduct as if it were yesterday’s Cold War. The Biden administration needs to understand the changed nature of our adversaries. Their new belligerency is not being deterred—the belligerents aggressively prod and poke just up to the line of US retaliation without crossing it. In the …

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