Today
Jimmy Lai and the future of freedom
Human rights issues typified by cases such as the media mogul’s are not distractions from more important business. They are the important business.
This Month
Will Newsom be the Democrats’ next mistake?
Democrats should be careful whom they crush on. Gavin Newsom’s record as governor of California is a Republican strategist’s perfect foil.
December 2025
Bondi Beach is what ‘globalise the intifada’ looks like
We will learn more about the mindset of Sunday’s killers. But it is already reasonable to surmise that they thought they were “globalising the intifada”.
November 2025
Why New York City mayoral candidate Mamdani frightens Jews like me
The 34-year-old state assembly member stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists, and his views are more than disturbing.
October 2025
Israel fought to defeat an existential threat (and an existential lie)
The lie is that Israel is a settler-colonialist state, a nonnative invasive species that has no place in that land.
What Israel should learn from two years of war
The only viable path to a sustainable Palestinian state is a cultural revolution among Palestinians that ends the fantasy of Israel’s destruction.
September 2025
The West’s real tradition is debate, not division
Universities once taught students to engage with argument rather than denounce it. Now they cater for credential-seeking customers, with sometimes tragic outcomes.
Gesture politics won’t help Palestinians
France, Canada and Australia aren’t aiming to do much to help actual Palestinians. Mainly, they seek to congratulate themselves.
A decade on, this is what Merkel’s immigration disaster has created
The rise of right-wing parties across Europe, to say nothing of the US, shows that mass migration without express voter consent is politically intolerable.
August 2025
Where can Gaza go from here? There are 3 basic options
No thoughtful person can be pro-Palestinian without also being anti-Hamas.
July 2025
No, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza
There is a difference between too many civilian deaths and the extermination of a category of people for no other reason than that they belong to that category.
There is no excusing Mamdani’s failure to condemn ‘intifada’
A candidate who refuses to condemn the phrase “globalise the intifada” isn’t participating in democratic debate; he’s giving moral comfort to people who deliberately murder innocent Jews.
June 2025
Why Trump’s Iran call was correct and courageous
No matter how one feels about this president and the rest of his policies, the decision to use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons deserves respect.
How Trump can strike a big beautiful nukes deal with Iran
First, the US President should drop bunker busters on Fordow. Then, he should drop a diplomatic bunker buster on Tehran — the proverbial offer it can’t refuse.
April 2025
Under Trump, America is becoming unrecognisable
Understatement and confidence, decency and expectation; that certain idea of the United States for which the country was once so admired, is evaporating.
March 2025
Democracy dies in dumbness
Donald Trump’s trade war will end in disaster. What else isn’t going to end well, at least for the administration? Let’s make a list.
February 2025
Trump may be wrong about many things, but he’s right about Hamas
Arab states such as Qatar and Egypt depend on US protection even as they harbour Hamas leaders or failed to stop the group from arming itself to the teeth.
January 2025
Israeli right may soon be disenchanted with Trump
The result is a diplomatic paradox: Thanks largely to the incoming president, a deal demanded by the Israeli left and reviled by the right is about to come into effect.
December 2024
Trump should present Iran with a choice – and a dare
The end of Bashar al-Assad’s wretched regime in Syria unlocks many doors for the United States across Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Iran.
The CEO, not the shooter, is the real working-class hero
Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot in New York, is a model for how a talented, determined man from humble roots can rise to the top of corporate life.
