Brush With Controversy The Czech Republic debates artistic freedom—again.
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.
What Are Ron Paul's Liberal Friends Thinking? For anyone moderately familiar with Ron Paul’s record, it shouldn't come as a surprise that a litany of racists, anti-Semites, conspiracy-theorists, and militia members back his presidential campaign.
Why Don't Libertarians Care About Ron Paul's Bigoted Newsletters? Nearly four years ago, on the eve of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, The New Republic published my expose of newsletters published by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. The contents of these newsletters can best be described as appalling. Blacks were referred to as “animals.” Gays were told to go “back” into the “closet.” The “X-Rated Martin Luther King”...
Struggle Songs Southern Africa: New Treacheries and Old Deceits by Stephen Chan; Yale University Press; 204 pages; $30. IN THE SUMMER of 2006, I witnessed one of the innumerable trials of Jacob Zuma. The future president of South Africa was facing charges of corruption, having been acquitted of rape just months earlier. Outside the courthouse in Pietermaritzburg,...
Rumor Debunked The upheaval in Egypt revealed the true divide between Israelis and U.S. neocons. Herzliya, Israel—For years, American neoconservatives have been accused of being lackeys for Israel, namely the Likud party. In 2008, Time’s Joe Klein wrote, “The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives—people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over atCommentary—plumped for [the Iraq] war,...
Mayhem in Minsk A dispatch from inside President Lukashenko’s brutal election crackdown. Minsk, Belarus—On Sunday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was reelected to five more years in office. He garnered 80 percent of the vote, according to official numbers. In past elections, Lukashenko, often called “Europe’s last dictator,” all but prevented anyone from directly challenging him. But, this year, he...
Belarus Betrayal Why is the West cozying up to Europe’s last dictator? On December 19, citizens in the former Soviet republic of Belarus will head to polls to vote in the country’s presidential election, the fourth since 1994. But Belarusians don’t have any real hope of unseating incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an...