MICHAEL IGNATIEFF: "For all the talk about futility and perversity in interventions, it is well to remember that not all of them have failed." READ MORE >>
Hugo Chávez, the man in the flesh, radiated a freakish degree of energy, as if he were a nuclear reactor, and the freakish radiation had the effect of leaving me startled by the news of his death. The reports of his medical treatments over the past few months had not passed me by. And yet, I had met the man, and, though the meeting was brief, it had left me convinced that mortality’s laws, which are said to be universal, must surely have granted Hugo Chávez an exemption. Cancer issued a decree, even so. It is a lesson to me. READ MORE >>
The most famous and revealing scenes in Victor Hugo’s Les READ MORE >>
Welcome to Phase Three of the Arab Spring
Islamists are waning in the Arab world. But will Obama notice?
So it is not true that, in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood speaks for society as a whole. Nor does Islamist ideology, with its invocations of superstition and its exaltations of obedience, express the Egyptian “street.” Nor does the Brotherhood possess the canny ability to bend history to its will. The crisis in Egypt over the Brotherhood’s proposed new constitution broke out in December, and, three months later, the riots and demonstrations and killings have still not come to an end. READ MORE >>
How Europe Earned Its Nobel Peace Prize
The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism
Joseph Anton: A Memoir By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 636 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
Obama’s Two Most Revealing Moments in Last Night’s Debate
The Novel That Frightened Hamas and the Arab League
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