- October 2007
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31st Oct 2007
A corrupt mayor’s kitschy comeback. Providence, Rhode Island — Hanging in the plaque-adorned hallway of WPRO-AM, the local talk-radio station, is…
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15th Oct 2007
It’s not fair to use affirmative action against Clarence Thomas. With the release of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ memoir,…
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8th Oct 2007
The Columbia Professor Who Also Doesn’t Think Gay People Exist in the Middle East Of all the absurd claims expressed…
- September 2007
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30th Sep 2007
Those who say Zimbabwe’s president was once a hero are fooling themselves. As Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, presides over what might be the…
- August 2007
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26th Aug 2007
EVERY AMERICAN president since Harry Truman has formulated a crucial aspect of foreign policy that later takes his name. The…
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3rd Aug 2007
Perhaps at no other point in history has the United States been more unpopular in the world than it is…
- July 2007
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18th Jul 2007
Jimmy Carter still has a lot to answer for. In April 1979, 64 percent of the black citizens of Rhodesia…
- June 2007
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26th Jun 2007
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa By Peter Godwin; Little, Brown and Company; 352 pages; $24.99. Last…
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6th Jun 2007
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein; 352 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux Last year, while…
- May 2007
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23rd May 2007
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa by Padraig O’Malley; Viking; 648 pages; $32.95. To the victors, it seems,…
About James
James Kirchick is a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe and Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. A widely published journalist, he is author of “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age” (Yale, 2017), a correspondent for The Daily Beast, and a columnist for Tablet. He is at work on his second book, a history of gay Washington, D.C., for Henry Holt.
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