Telos Editor Russell Berman argues that the modern university is currently threatened by a set of transformations and pressures inimical to liberal intellectual culture. While this slide into repression has multiple causes, prominent among them is one legacy of the …
Editors: Barry Rubin’s ‘Confessions at a Funeral’ (Democratiya 12) includes a serious mischaracterisation of recent pronouncements by Hezbollah. Rubin makes much of Hezbollah’s posthumous praise of recently assassinated Imad Mughniyyah and the revelation that he was one of its leaders. …
I am reluctant to write this article because it should not be necessary. No antiracist and no scholar should need the case to be explicitly set out against a campaign to exclude Israelis from the cultural and economic life of …
In mid-April, Rep. Sue Myrick, a soft-spoken Republican from Charlotte, North Carolina, sought to shake her nation from its slumbers, announcing a 10-point ‘Wake Up America’ agenda ‘to alert, and educate, Americans to terrorist threats here at home posed by …
The editors of Rethinking the Just War Tradition invite readers in their role as citizens to take individual responsibility for demanding that warfare conducted in their name be just (pp. ix and 11). They do well in calling for an …
In an effort to provide a suitably thick patina of legitimacy for an institution whose beginnings date no further back than the time of Arthur Salter and Jean Monnet, the European Union has often made recourse to what can be …
The 40th anniversary of May 68 has brought forth a proliferation of publications of variable quality, not to mention accuracy. Amongst the various books, articles, poster and photo albums, two stand out as genuine efforts by participants to reflect seriously …
The issue features four important contributions to the debate about the crisis of the western liberal-left. In a passionate, clear-sighted and wide-ranging survey of ‘a liberal left that exhibits a radical over-sensitivity to the crimes and injustices of western governments, …
Edmund Wilson has been an object of saintly veneration and nostalgia to those old enough to remember when literary critics were arbiters of how people spent their time between meals and work. Who now, in the age of the hatchet …
It is a bitter irony that the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which some 3,000 people lost their lives, has been overshadowed by the many tragedies of their aftermath. Consider just those perpetrated by the United States. …
A funny thing happened at the funeral of Imad Mughniyah. Those who had for years been denying any connection with him and his international terrorist activities – Iran, Syria, and Hizballah – suddenly admitted that he was one of their …
A Cossack is pointing a gun at a Jew. The Jew, waving his arms around frantically, says, ‘What’s the matter with you? Don’t you see this is a human being in front of you?’ The old joke suggests both some …
Proclaiming the virtues of ‘empiricism,’ Joshua Muravchik depicts the late Michael Harrington as laying the basis for ‘a logically sound utilitarian argument for killing some people in order to get there,’ that is, to a ‘new, higher, happier level of …
This book begins with what the author claims is a puzzle: the transformation of an ‘Iranian-influenced conspiratorial terrorist group [initially] rejecting participation in Lebanese politics,’ into ‘a party with considerable autonomy and a talent for playing politics and winning elections.’ …
To speak very generally, there are two kinds of left apostate: there are those who break with the left in order to move elsewhere (usually to the right, though not always) and there are those who repudiate certain beliefs or …
