This Month
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice
The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery and murder in practice.
April
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What it means to be (visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League
Behaviour that would be scandalous if aimed at other minorities is treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why Benjamin Netanyahu must go
Parliamentary democracies that find themselves saddled with bad leaders in moments of national emergency do well when they get rid of those leaders.
- Updated
February
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Settler colonialism: a guide for the sincere
It’s fine to oppose settler colonialism, but in that case, one also must be consistent and principled.
January
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The real meaning of Gaza’s tunnels
Gaza is not an open air prison, but a vast fortress cynically created by Hamas. That is why the war is a catastrophe for those who have to live alongside it.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The genocide charge against Israel is a moral obscenity
In war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when the killing begins.
- Opinion
- US election
The case for Trump – by someone who wants him to lose
You can’t defeat a political opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Trump got three big things right — or at least more right than wrong.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Antisemitism: A guide for the perplexed
It isn’t just Jews in the cross-hairs of antisemites. It’s freedom, education and human dignity.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Campus antisemitism, free speech and double standards
Colleges have discovered the virtues of free speech only now, when the speech in question hurts Jews.
November 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The left is killing the prospects of a Palestinian state
Westerners who refuse to question Hamas’ theocratic despotism make a peaceful solution harder to achieve.
October 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Hamas is the sole cause of Gaza’s misery
The world should not reward Hamas with our credulity, lest we once again turn ourselves into Hamas’ useful idiots.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Hamas’ control of Gaza must end now
It’s easy to note the parallels between Hamas’ attack on Israel and the 1973 Yom Kippur war. This war, too, can lead to a similar outcome.
August 2023
- Opinion
- Global economy
Seven ways the West can manage China’s alarming fall
The main challenge Beijing presents in the coming decade stems not from its rise but from its decline – something to be feared and handled accordingly.
January 2023
- Opinion
- Global economy
China’s decline became undeniable this week. Now what?
The population is falling, economic growth has slowed to a crawl and relations with the West are tense. But the scariest aspect is geopolitical.
July 2022
- Opinion
- Trump's America
I was wrong about Trump voters
Trump voters were not wrong about their betrayal by condescending American elites. Commentators should remember that in 2024.
April 2022
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Why we admire Volodomyr Zelensky
The Ukrainian President’s forthright courage is everything that the insecurity and paranoia of Putin is not. He shows that democracies can elect leaders that inspire, ennoble and even save.
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
What do we do if Putin uses chemical weapons?
Russian commanders have no compunction about using chemical weapons elsewhere. The response from the West should be economically and diplomatically devastating.
How the West can accelerate Putin’s exit
The Russian President is not going to slink back into the corner and leave the world alone. The scenes of mass murder in Bucha require the West to take a harder stance.
March 2022
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
New rules for our grave new world
There are six things that free countries can do to avoid living in a world haunted by the likes of Vladimir Putin.
February 2022
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Bring back the free world
Fascism and the Cold War created a group of democracies that cared about each other’s freedom. Vladimir Putin is just reminding us how important that is.
