In Donald Trump’s “America first” policy we can detect “an unintended reincarnation of Ayn Rand,” suggests Arnold Steinberg in The American Spectator. Rand’s ideas may well have influenced Trump in some indirect way (the cultural impact of her philosophy is far-reaching). But: How Much Ayn Rand Is There in Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy?
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In the Claremont Review of Books, I write about Efraim Karsh's The Tail Wags the Dog. The book looks at how to explain the Middle East’s chronic destitution, upheavals, and war. Read the article: The Once and Future War
[The Times of Israel] I'm encouraged by UCLA's official response to the book-banning incident. The gist of my blog post: In a letter to ARI, the UCLA Law School issued a formal apology for the incident, and it explained that the decision to ban the book was inconsistent with its vigorous commitment to freedom of … Continue reading After banning my Book, UCLA explains itself
The College Fix reports on the UCLA incident concerning my book. Here's the story: At UCLA, book on ‘Islamic Totalitarianism’ censored at free speech event
At UCLA Law School last week, a squad of student "thought police" tried to ban my book, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond. They don't want you to know the book even exists, let alone what's inside it. And the UCLA administration enabled them. This ominous episode … Continue reading UCLA tried ban to my book on Islamic totalitarianism–at a free speech event | TheHill
When I first heard about the “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” I had grave misgivings: the freighted title, by itself, rang in my ears like a siren. Turns out, the “Field Guide” was worse than I thought. Continue reading: Voices for Reason - What’s Behind the Blacklisting of Anti-Muslim “Extremists” | The Ayn Rand Institute
Lately we’ve seen a whole flurry of articles — many of them overstated — about the influence of Ayn Rand on some of Trump’s cabinet picks, and in that there’s some (qualified) good news. Now comes this heartening news story: Israel’s newspaper of record, Haaretz, reports that the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was seen in parliament reading a book … Continue reading Netanyahu Is Reading “Nothing Less Than Victory” — and So Should You | The Times of Israel
We can stop attacks like Berlin. But we need to rethink how we confront jihadists. Continue reading: 3 things we must know in order to stop jihadists | TheHill
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