A neo-Nazi cell in ... Israel? To which one can only add: Oy vey! Actually, this is not all that surprising. After all, Israeli nationalist ideology has evolved into a form of national socialism—albeit without the anti-Semitism. The socialist part of the equation is easy: Israel was founded by socialists of the left-wing variety, and yet their utopian experiment eventually morphed … [Read More]

For all of you out there who think G.W. Bush deserves to be impeached—I’m with you, of course—we may now have the “smoking gun” which would force the Democrats in Congress to act, even if they do not want to. This is a matter of principle, not politics. I believe a fair reading of Sidney Blumenthal’s investigative report on Salon.com of … [Read More]

There are endless, mindless clichés abroad in the land concerning the meaning of September 11, 2001, and like most of you I detest them. Indeed, they stir up in me a righteous anger—for I am a member of the “9/11 generation,” having come of age at virtually the very moment of the attacks. I was 16 years old, in my second … [Read More]

On a beautiful, crisp Saturday morning on the first of the month I flew from Gstaad to the chateau de Dampierre, the duc de Luyne’s seat southwest of Paris. My old friend Jean Claude Sauer was getting hitched for the fifth time, to a wonderful girl by the name of Brigitte—incidentally, the fifth Brigitte he has married in his long and … [Read More]

Richard Brookhiser on Fred Thompson: “Fred Thompson came to the offices of National Review some years when he was still in the Senate. I liked him fine. He has done nothing, anywhere, ever. The Hubble Telescope could not find what he has done, because he has not done it.” What? Lobbying for an abortion rights group, and writing press releases for … [Read More]

Although we have met only several times in our lives, and then only briefly, I have followed the career of George F. Will with at least intermittent interest. We are almost the same age (I’m a few months older), and in his early years, Will showed the kind of knowledge of historical and philosophical themes that I encounter quite rarely in … [Read More]

Peggy Noonan delivers a warning to the Republican presidential pack: “The debate was full of fireworks about Iraq, about its essentials—the rightness of the endeavor, and what should rightly be done now. From the libertarian Ron Paul a blunt argument against the war: We never should have gone in and we should get out. ‘The people who say there’ll be a … [Read More]

You didn’t see these headlines last month, and neither did I.  I did get an email from a retired heirarch of a church in Asia with the subject line: “Fire bombing of Bishop J____’s house,” and the news that a stolen car, evidently packed with cans of gasoline, exploded in back of a modest home with a small church in the … [Read More]

Well, no, not really.  Babar Ahmad is a British Muslim who ran jihadist websites that raised money for radical Muslims fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan.  He’s currently being held in England, awaiting extradition to the United States.  His case is of interest to me, because it was Ahmad to whom former U.S. Navy signalman Hassan Abujihaad passed classified information on the … [Read More]

The highlight of the GOP presidential debate, held in New Hampshire, and broadcast on Faux Fox News, was this exchange between Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee (Hat tip: Lewrockwell.com) PAUL: “Going into Iraq and Afghanistan and threatening Iran is the worst thing we can do for our national security. I am less safe, the American people are less safe for this. … [Read More]