The Promise of Israel (Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength) by Daniel Gordi John Wiley & Sons, 2012, 256 pages, US$25.95 Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman Duke University Press, 2012, 208 pages, US$22.95 The nation-state concept long ago lost its allure for many of those on the Left. […]

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El Presidente did not lack for toadies and flatterers while ruining one of the world's oil-rich nations, but that gushing is as nothing beside the tears and tributes inspired by news of his death. Mussolini should have been so lucky

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At his first inauguration ceremony, on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama set the tone with a line from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address: “A New Birth of Freedom”. Confident of his place amongst the giants of American history, the forty-fourth president has never been reluctant to compare his destiny with that of The Great Emancipator, the […]

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Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973–75 by George J. Veith Encounter Books, 2012, 456 pages, US$29.95 George J. Veith’s Black April tells the story of South Vietnam’s journey into oblivion. His thesis is that the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF) possessed an integrity and pluck its detractors ignore, and would have been […]

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You reap what you sow, as the US is about to be reminded now that Barack Obama has been given four more years to compound the follies and failures of his first term. It is not going to be pretty

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Robert Wistrich’s latest work, From Ambivalence to Betrayal, defines Zionism as a national liberation movement. Marx pre-dated Zionism but the analytical tools he bequeathed to his ideological successors predisposed them to sneer at the concept of Jewish national self-determination as a petty-bourgeois folly. Consequently, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky all derided Zionism, and yet Wistrich […]

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Those who count the votes in Venezuela have awarded Hugo Chavez six more years in the Presidential Palace. The country will be lucky to survive this latest extension of its nightmare

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In his memoir Notes on a Century, Bernard Lewis observes that it has become “fashionable to assume that everything Western is bad”. Lewis, nonetheless, allows himself to make one “blatantly chauvinistic statement” by claiming that “the quest for knowledge” is a “peculiarly Western feature”. Throughout the past half-millennium, from the time of the earliest European […]

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Much more than another mere hack and transcriber of favoured politicians' talking points, David Marr's Quarterly Essay assault on Tony Abbott confirms his place as the Left's pre-eminent enforcer

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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House by Edward Klein Regnery, 2012, 256 pages, US$16.77  Not until the first week of June did it dawn on America’s liberal-leftist mainstream media, which constitutes the virtual entirety of America’s mainstream media with the exception of Fox News and various populist radio stations, that The One might […]

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