Nuclear Holocaust Denial

Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"€”a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor ...

Bradley Manning

An Open Letter to the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

Dear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military intervention in Libya is an important warning from a public servant unafraid to speak unpopular truths. ...

No Accidents in Wisconsin

What has happened in Wisconsin? Everyone seems to know but me. The liberal media knows it was "€œunion busting"€ and an assault on the middle class. The neo-conservative ...

Dr. Saif Gaddafi and Mustafa Zarti

Dr. Taki v. Dr. Gaddafi

Up to London to collect my Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. My name is Dr. Taki from now on, and Jeremy Clarke can eat his heart out. If he’d stay out of pubs and do ...

Louis Farrakhan

Listening to Louis

Churchgoing New Englanders in the early settlements normally heard two sermons every Sunday"€”one in the morning and another in the afternoon, each at least two hours long. ...

It’s Their War, Not Ours

Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two. What would be the purpose of establishing a ...

Women and Democracy in the Middle East

One of Israel's finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, "€œJust as there is no such thing as a partial pregnancy, there is no such thing as a partial ...

Reverend Fred Phelps

The Inalienable Right to Hate Fags

Based on their entertainment value alone, I believe that the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church deserves First Amendment protection. For entirely different reasons, ...

Eric Holder

We, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People

My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional ...

Europe’s Great Berm

The world beyond our shores seems to be entering a zone of dangerous instability. Five years from now we may be looking back nostalgically at the decades 1980-2010 as an age of ...

Invasion of the Kochtopussies

Ever since last August's game-changing New Yorker article about the intergalactically wealthy Koch brothers and their unholy, unfeeling, and ecologically unsanitary war to harass ...

Why Scott Walker Must Win

The anti-democratic methods President Obama’s union allies are using in Wisconsin testify to the crucial character of the battle being fought. Teachers have walked off in ...

Mr Donald Trump

Donald Trump, You’re Hired!

Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would vote for him. Obama is a disaster, like Bush II before him. But what about Trump when ...

Ex-Politicians Shouldn”€™t Talk

Politicians, especially those who climbed to the top, should disappear when they leave office. Deprived of spokesmen and advisors, they are bound to reveal character flaws they ...

Ban Ki-moon

Body-Waxing at the United Nations

Remember the old cliché about someone who is perpetually vacillating between a necktie and an open shirt? Or the one about the man who is noticeable for being completely ...

Campus Witch Hunts

Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "€œracial vandalism"€ occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper ...


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