The lesson of the cartoon crisis is not about Islam at all. Nor about the hypocrisy of the West, even if that is true. It is about the new orthodoxy built on inflated notions of rights and respect, skewed ideas of injury and punishment, and the relia

BY Michael Neumann 15 February 2006

Since at least the 1950s, the American left has accomplished almost nothing. The civil rights movement got somewhere, but it was independent of the left, and it had the support - at times the military support - of the US government. Leftists played t

BY Michael Neumann 29 June 2005

The Secret's Out: the US is Weak and it suffers from a distressing lack of hysteria. But does it understand that it cannot do without genuinely useful allies--not British twits, or Israeli goons who are happy to drag it down with them?

BY Michael Neumann 4 March 2003

If the situation of the Palestinians seems hopeless, it is not simply because of what Israel does. Pro-Palestinian activists, wedded to conventional left-wing assumptions, play a role too.

BY Michael Neumann 19 August 2002

Palestinian tactics are often attacked or defended on dubious grounds. Whether these tactics are terrorist is irrelevant; some terrorism is defensible, some not...

BY Michael Neumann 10 April 2002