Like a seizure that leads to the discovery of a brain tumor, the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may finally have revealed to Western readers the cancer that has grown in our midst: a highly ideological press that, to…

The political left loves the truth, don’t they? Especially when it gives the impression of coming at great cost to the truth-teller. No empty rhetoric is as sacrosanct on the American left as the empty rhetoric of sacrificial “speaking truth…

With the death this week of Israeli founding father Shimon Peres, there is likely to be a lot of talk, some of it abstract but much of it related to Israel, about peace. Which is, one supposes, as it should…

As we remember the 23rd anniversary of the White House lawn handshake between the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the recidivist Palestinian arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, the recently-installed head of a once-great Jewish institution has illustrated anew how the Oslo…

Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted out a request for “your toughest #foreignpolicy questions” as a part of “Big Block of Cheese Day.” If you weren’t a fan of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, the NBC drama that…