The Thong Reaction

We live in the Age of Exhibitionism. Underwear is outerwear. Gauze is a coverup. “Bare midriff” is redundant. Earlier this spring, the red-carpet parade at the Academy Awards exposed more sagging flesh than an aging nudist colony. Did you see actresses...

America’s Accommodation of Evil

In perusing through a recently published book on American politics, the following statement caught my eye: “[The spectre] our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face is that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and appeasement does not give you a...

CAIR: The NAACP for Islamic Terrorists

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations presents itself as just another civil-rights group. “We are similar to a Muslim NAACP,” says spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. Its public language – about promoting “interest and understanding...

Japanese Stock Growth?

A visitor to Tokyo just can’t believe that this is what a decade of stagnation looks like. Restaurants are full, shops are bustling, construction cranes are all over the place. Yet on Thursday, a government report showed that Japan’s economy had...

Suffer the Palestinian Children

I spent my 21st birthday, in 1973, in Jerusalem, months before the Yom Kippur War. As part of the college junior semester abroad, I lived and traveled in Israel for nearly five weeks. In preparing a thesis called “U.N. Resolution 242 and the Viability of an...

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