World
Why Has China Declared War On Reality TV?
Why We Need Détente With North Korea
Whatever Kim Jong-Il’s death meant for the people of North Korea, it did not change the fundamental strategic interest that the United States has in the country. The paramount issue for Washington remains assuring that Pyongyang never uses its nuclear arsenal, and that it never leaks or gifts its weapons material and technology to other nations or terrorists. READ MORE >>
The Awakening
Why Is Obama Selling Arms to a Theocratic Dictatorship?
Iraq Is a Mess. But Leaving Was the Right Call.
Iraqi Kurdistan Is Booming. Will It Ever Be a Separate State?
Out of Iraq: The War Is Over But the Repercussions Are Just Beginning
Is There Any Way To Help the People of North Korea?
Write it down. Write it. With ordinary ink on ordinary paper; they weren’t given food, they all died of hunger. All. How many? It’s a large meadow. How much grass per head? Write down: I don’t know. History rounds off skeletons to zero. A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a fictitious fetus, an empty cradle, a primer opened for no one, air that laughs, cries, and grows, READ MORE >>
The Greatest Crimes of the World’s Most Terrible Dictator
In Praise of Vaclav Havel
The following essay is based on the laudatio given by Jacques Rupnik in October 2009 on the occasion of the awarding to Václav Havel of an honorary doctorate from Sciences Po. The text, which originally appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Commentaire, was translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. READ MORE >>
