Michael Widlanski

Michael Widlanski


  • Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0

    July 2, 2025

    Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0

    There’s less “speak softly” and more “big stick.”

  • How Columbia and America have changed

    April 22, 2024

    How Columbia and America have changed

    Columbia’s challenge is to get back to where it was and where it might yet be; that’s also the challenge for America.

  • Following Biden’s Lead?

    March 21, 2024

    Following Biden’s Lead?

    Well-meaning but clueless Westerners -- from Washington to Hollywood to the UN -- urging Israeli “restraint” or open-ended “ceasefire,” should understand why nearly all Israelis will go elsewhere for advice.

  • November 24, 2023

    Taking Pride in Murder

    Most Palestinian Arabs get that warm and fuzzy feeling from the brutally successful terror attack of October 7, 2023. 

  • November 16, 2023

    Why Palestine Fails

    Before creating another “Palestinian state,” let’s consider its chance of success.

  • November 9, 2023

    Remaking Gaza: A Harsh And Necessary Road Map

    We must look at the Palestinians and Gaza honestly, without wishful thinking which is the worst enemy of intelligence and strategic planning.

  • November 2, 2023

    Life as a horror movie

    Can the average English-speaker understand HAMAS, ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups? Yes -- just go to the movies.

  • October 21, 2023

    Naming Names in the Middle East

    Militants stage sit-ins in college libraries. Terrorists cut off the heads of babies.

  • April 24, 2023

    Appointment in Chicago -- Democrats and Destiny

    We, destiny, and the Democrats have an appointment in Chicago for a presidential convention.

  • March 30, 2023

    Israel’s Judicial Coup

    Israel is teaching us all a new lesson in modern western democracy as checks and balances are thrown out the window. 

  • May 23, 2022

    A new Black Sox Scandal?

    Racial whining reaches baseball.

  • April 13, 2020

    An obituary for The New York Times

    I recently read a New York Times obituary that accidentally summarized the last years of The New York Times, a once great newspaper. 

  • February 5, 2020

    The Democrat Data App

    The Democrats, always, but always, flub the details. 

  • July 17, 2019

    The Exceptional Trump

    In many respects, Trump is a fulfilment of the vision of America by the French historian Alexis De Tocqueville, who studied and described American exceptionalism almost 200 years ago

  • November 9, 2018

    Reporters and good questions

    A good question should challenge the person being asked, but it also should be a good-faith effort to get at the truth.

  • October 15, 2018

    Democrats vs. democrats

    It is time for democrats of every party (or no party) to fight back against the Democrats.

  • January 7, 2017

    Obama's Last Chance

    After so many failed lies, so many treacherous talking points, will another Obama speech tour or late diplomatic flurry change the real results of eight years at this hour?

  • October 30, 2016

    America’s Cartoon Election

    This year’s cartoon election brings us the Democrat smartass versus Dumbo the Elephant.

  • September 23, 2016

    Trump and the Anti-Elite ‘Intellectual’ Moment

    Many of the “intellectual class” are dumb indeed, so smugly sure of themselves that they simply insult those with whom they disagree.

  • January 17, 2016

    Obama’s Islamophilia

    To fear the very real results of Islamist aggression is not Islamophobia, but to live in a state of denial of Islamist actions and plans is a dangerous delusion.

  • September 6, 2014

    Islamism: The Allure and the Cure

    Islam may like to be called “the religion of peace," but it was advanced by the sword.

  • August 6, 2014

    Understanding Gaza: The Knife and the Bomb

    Cynicism is Gaza's number one resource, terrorism its main export.

  • July 13, 2014

    Naming and Fighting Terror

    Western media and politicians try to play word games with the true nature of Islam, an ideology basedon the premise sabil allah fi-al-seyf -- the path of Allah is by the sword.

  • July 5, 2014

    Making Sense of 'Senseless' Terror

    President Barack Obama thinks terror is "senseless," but the terrorists disagree. 

  • June 17, 2014

    Obama's Magical Symbolism

    Like Osama Bin-Laden, Barack Obama lives in a symbolic universe, thinking he is its center.

  • May 8, 2014

    National Security Dudes and Dudettes

    If you're a really cool guy like the president or one of his top advisors or the Secretary of State who wants to become president of the U.S., then it is perfectly okay to act cool and go into pretend-and-deny mode.

  • March 20, 2014

    Prophetic Leaders and Pathetic Leaders

    It is extraordinary how remarkably hollow the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize citation sounds in 2014 amid international events that Obama's policies allowed or caused

  • February 10, 2014

    Barack Obama's Transformational Moment

    The Executive branch, unchained.

  • December 1, 2013

    ObamaCare for Iran?

    There are several clear parallels between Barack Obama's health care program and the deal the president made with Iran about its nuclear program.

  • August 28, 2013

    Staying Home or Getting Involved

    Imagining that America can stay home, ignore the world, and be safe is not using one's imagination. It is simply pretending.

  • August 7, 2013

    Obama's 'Victory' Over Terror

    President Obama see-saws between apathy and frenzy, between stony denial and feverish response.

  • July 18, 2013

    Hawks, Doves -- and Ostriches

    There are three dominant groups involved in the Mideast peace process. Only one gets results.

  • May 31, 2013

    Barack Obama, George Orwell, and Terror

    A classic case of using debased language to distort perception of the real world.

  • December 6, 2012

    Europe Prays to Paper Peace, Paper God

    The Europeans have learned nothing from declarations of "peace in our time."

  • November 21, 2012

    Blood and Tribalism

    Tribal blood-dipping, like "honor killings" of women suspected of "improper behavior" is not really an Islamic ritual but a vestige of pre-Islamic tribalism.

  • October 29, 2012

    Presidential decisions - right and wrong

    Obama is no Harry Truman and no Jack Kennedy.

  • September 29, 2012

    Killing the Messenger, Obama's Way

    President Obama thinks critics and foes need not only to be defeated, but to be crushed and shamed in the public square.

  • September 1, 2012

    Introducing the UJR - The United Jihadi Republic

    The Arab Spring went by fast. Start singing "Stormy Weather."

  • August 2, 2012

    Obama's Body Count

    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton feel that Osama bin Laden's death and the drone attacks show that they have mastered national security and foreign policy. They are wrong.

  • July 13, 2012

    Far-Reaching Changes Threaten Israel And Western Interests in Mediterranean

    There are dramatic changes in the security picture on Israel's southern border, but you would not know it by reading, listening to, or watching most of the American press or listening to press briefings at the White House or the State Department.

  • May 20, 2012

    Losing Egypt, Losing the Mid-East

    We're still paying for Jimmy Carter's mistakes in Iran. For how long will we wind up paying for Obama's in Egypt?

  • May 5, 2012

    National Security Is No Place For Double Standards

    Democrats and their media allies harm the United States when Republicans holdthe presidency.

  • February 13, 2012

    CNN Tilts East, Fires 4 Jewish Journalists in Jerusalem

    CNN has reportedly fired most of the Jews in its Jerusalem bureau, cutting half the bureau but leaving Arab workers and reviving charges of CNN's pro-Arab slant.

  • May 18, 2011

    Bibi, Barack and Tom

    How a NY Times columnist directs his own "reality" show