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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Tony Abbott’s address to the Institute of Public Affairs, titled Freedom Wars, confirms a monumental re-alignment in politics in Australia.

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Shimon Peres in conversation with David Landau, Ben-Gurion: A Political Life (Schocken Books, 2011), 240 pages, US$25.95  David Ben-Gurion’s political philosophy, according to Shimon Peres, was surprisingly pragmatic for someone so principled. Ben-Gurion’s capacity for compromise literally put Israel on the map and his facility for honourable compromises goes a long way to explaining the […]

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James Delingpole,  Killing the Earth to Save It: How Environmentalists Are Ruining the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Jobs (Connor Court, 2012), 320 pages, $29.95 The Green movement, contends James Delingpole in Killing the Earth to Save It, is essentially a religion with a “suicidal, mankind-hating, technology-loathing, apocalyptic vision of the world”. Delingpole […]

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In October 1979 I found myself, through no feat of my own, living the high life in a provincial city in the People’s Republic of China. I was twenty-two years old.

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