Further thoughts on the topic I cover in the article at The Hill: Trump Should Break the American Tradition of Ignoring Egypt's Abuse of Its People
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TheHill.com: The U.S. should stop ignoring Egypt's abysmal record on the issue of human freedom. Read: Trump should break the American tradition of ignoring Egypt's abuse of its people | TheHill
My post on: The jihadist attack in London | The Times of Israel
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?
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
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
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