Hungary's Prime Minister Bites the Hand That Feeds Him Orban may be signaling that his political intentions are even more reactionary and revisionist than we had previously imagined.
A Hero Who Doesn't Exist On the recent remarks of the Israeli Ambassador to Belarus
It's Not About Gay Rights — it's About Human Rights For many, “gay rights” is associated with the debate over whether gay people should be allowed to marry, adopt children or serve openly in the military. But a discussion looming before the United Nations this week is far more basic: whether gays should enjoy the basic right to life.
Pat Buchanan and His Enablers The real scandal here is not that Pat Buchanan wrote a book replete with racist, anti-Semitic drivel. The scandal is that a major cable news channel—indeed, the go-to source of news and information for progressives—ever hired him in the first place.
A Blow to Obama’s Russia ‘Reset’ Last week’s International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iranian nuclear activities has understandably ruffled feathers in American and European foreign-policy circles. Among other damning conclusions, the report finds that “Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device” and “had been provided with nuclear explosive design information.” Governments in the U.S....
Charlie Hebdo Attack: No More Excuses The smoke had barely cleared from the firebombed office of Charlie Hebdo magazine—attacked for publishing cartoons of Mohammed—when TIME magazine’s Bruce Crumley chose to criticise the satirists before the terrorist. There exists an unspoken rule in the Republic of Letters — that land where novelists, poets, mere ink-stained wretches like myself, think tank scholars who...
What American “Political Prisoners?” An American hiker channels Noam Chomsky after two years in Iranian jail. Imagine you are Shane Bauer, one of two American hikers released from Iranian captivity last week. On July 31, 2009, you’re traversing a mountain trail in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Iranian border. You’re with one of your best friends and your girlfriend. Suddenly...
In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko is playing at reform The man known as Europe’s last dictator made a startling announcement last week: Come early October, hewill release all of the political prisoners in his jails. For 17 years, Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus in much the way that it was run as a Soviet socialist republic: Most of the economy is state-owned, independent journalists are...