The New Wild West Economy

The financial geniuses who caused, yet failed to predict, the world’s financial collapse are not doing much yet to avoid…

Is the French Burqa Ban Against Muslims, Patriarchy, or Liberty?

A few years ago, the French Chamber of Deputies was debating a bill to prohibit the wearing of “ostentatious” religious…

Renée;e Kaplan welcomes Charles Glass, a journalist who has served as correspondent in the Middle East for Newsweek magazine and…

BBC correspondent John Simpson reported on March 4 that the number of defects in newborn babies in the Iraqi town…

The opposition in Iran, as elsewhere, uses the language of human rights to assert its moral superiority over its enemies…

It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…

Review of England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld, 490 pp, £25.00, July 2009, ISBN…

* 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello * Israel’s Vicious…

And they tell me your are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true that I have seen the gunman…

Israeli military spokesmen, justifying their army’s assault on the Gaza Strip, said the war was about Sderot. In a way,…