SecurityCommentary
How to Explain Terrorism in Belgium? Linguistic Division May Play a Role.
Belgium is a lovely country. Flanders, in the north, has some of the prettiest towns in Europe. Wallonia, to the south, has lush forests and… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Belgium is a lovely country. Flanders, in the north, has some of the prettiest towns in Europe. Wallonia, to the south, has lush forests and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This time there were no petulant attacks on Republicans or cringe-inducing vows that working on climate change would deliver “a powerful rebuke to the terrorists.”… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In 1990, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told me in an interview that massive Islamic immigration into Europe kept him awake at night. Between… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Many people think the tradition of assimilating immigrants into society is solely an American thing, something not practiced in “blood and soil” Europe. But one… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is, like all bureaucracies, humorless and unyielding—and it is no less so when it comes to balkanizing or fragmenting Americans…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
China’s drive to influence how Americans think—and, by extension, U.S. policy—takes many forms. Beijing has sought to buy its way into our top universities and biggest… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Is multiculturalism a decent if banal posture that basically boils down to respecting other cultures and getting sloshed on St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A politician being cynical is not exactly a “man bites dog” story, as seven years of President Barack Obama has taught us. But when the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Syria’s raging civil war has transfixed the West’s collective consciousness two summers in a row: last summer with ISIS’s unspeakable barbarity and in 2015 by… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Just before Secretary of State John Kerry raised the Stars and Stripes in Havana last week as he opened the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Sen…. Read More