Where In The World Is Barack Hussein Obama?
When all you have left is a drone, every problem looks like collateral damage.
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Why Egypt is America’s Enemy
So what should we do now? Nothing.
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Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring
Much of the coverage of Turkey can be politely described as ‘trampoline journalism’—bounce into Taksim and bounce out. What I saw in Istanbul didn’t match the feverish descriptions that made it even onto the BBC or that clogged up my Twitter feed. More relevant to me, almost no one was interested in hearing from religious Turks. So I went ahead and talked to them.
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“Religious Freedom” and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth
But the demand for hierarchy has a larger impact on politics. In Bill Clinton’s often-quoted words: “When times are uncertain, the American people would rather have a leader who is wrong but strong than one who is right but weak.” Just as the father must rule to keep the home in order, and the Father in Heaven must be obeyed to keep the universe in order, so the “great white father” in the White House must have firm control to keep order in the political realm.
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How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria
In the Muslim world, pluralism collides with democracy and sovereignty, which is far more interesting and alarming than the battle lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats.
Read MoreSantorum on Election of Muslim Brotherhood Candidate in Egypt…
How dare they pick the Muslim version of me?
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The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It
Assuming religious politics will play a significant role in the new government after the elections, will it be radical, moderate, or just the familiar gridlock experienced by most democracies?
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Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline
Remembering the leader of the “Velvet Revolution” through his writings.
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Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism
What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.
Read MoreTurkey and Egypt: Islam’s Future?
If Egypt’s democracy takes hold it will, along with Turkey, help elbow out the Islamist movements we’re used to hearing about.
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