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Avi Davis
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January 12, 2015
Will Western Leaders Really Encourage Free Speech?John Kerry recently talked a big game on freedom of speech in the face of Islam. It's hard to tell how serious he is.
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January 9, 2015
The Terror Returns to ParisIf the modern history of Paris is any guide, the citizens of that city won't tolerate weak leadership for long.
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January 3, 2015
Palestinians Can Thank the U.S. For Their International StatureIt is time for the U.S. to make the Palestinians recognize that there is a price to be paid for defying their benefactors
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December 5, 2014
Israel's National Identity ProblemIsrael takes a giant step in asserting its status as a Jewish state.
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November 23, 2014
Obama and the GOP Should Learn the Lessons of the 1860sOne sees shades of the post-Civil War turmoil of the 1860s in today's immigration debate. We must proceed with caution.
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November 20, 2014
Ben Bradlee and the Death of American JournalismBen Bradlee was almost singlehandedly responsible for the shift in the role of the print media in the early 1970s from an institution which sought to gather, present, and analyze the news to one that became fixated on the pursuit of justice.
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October 24, 2014
Paul Krugman's Indefensible Defense of Barack ObamaFor Krugman, an economically equitable society, drained of all prejudice and bigotry, where man pays obeisance to Nature and where its abundant resources are distributed equally amongst the world's citizens, should apparently be the goal of our presidents
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September 22, 2014
The West and National IdentityThe decline of nationalist spirit, evident throughout the West, is really an issue of collapsing identity.
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August 20, 2014
Can you Tell Who the Bad Guys are Now?ISIS is not only in Northern Iraq and the Middle East. It is a living, breathing monster, lurking in our Western cities, watching and waiting.
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August 10, 2014
The First World War's Relevance to Our TimesThe First World War has been called a futile war, one marked by military ineptitude and diplomatic failures in which 10 million lives were sacrificed for no gain. But what if it was no such thing?
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August 7, 2014
The Next War on Israel's HorizonTo state that the recent military confrontations between Israel and the terrorist groups who occupy territory adjacent to it are proxy wars between Iran and the Jewish State is to underline the obvious.
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May 2, 2011
Will Bin Laden's Specter Still Hover Over American Life?The kind of mass murderer who puzzled Western observers but spoke to the rising fury and disgust sweeping out of the Arabian deserts and the gutters of the Arab street.
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October 28, 2010
London's Islamic RepublicA London Borough with a billion dollar budget under the control of an Islamist with sweeping powers. What could go wrong?
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October 10, 2010
Let Sleeping Dogs LieThe resumed Israeli- Palestinian peace process is not four weeks old, and it seems to have already been reduced to the realm of a Gilbert and Sullivan farce.
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October 9, 2010
What John Lennon Failed to ImagineIt is as if that entire generation had finally found itself washed up on the very doorstep of senility.
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May 9, 2010
No Blanks: Kent State 40 Years LaterMuch of what we know about the event popularly referred to as the Kent State Massacre has come down to us only in history's shorthand.
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May 1, 2010
How the Dominoes FellDeclaring the Vietnam War a just and necessary American war these days is about the equivalent of suggesting that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were humanitarians.
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March 25, 2010
Petraeus of ArabiaIf supporters of Israel have been roiled lately by the tense exchanges between Washington and Jerusalem, they are soon in for another shock.
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March 23, 2010
Be Careful What You Wish ForObamacare enters history as a modern-day version of the Rosetta Stone, to be interpreted and reinterpreted by our judges and legislators for many generations into the future.
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March 18, 2010
The President's Middle East PlaybookBarack Obama has achieved the impossible: He has managed to bring together secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heated campaign against him.