A case of leftist ‘McCarthyism’? So-called “progressives” should stop mimicking the far right and engage in that debate without questioning the allegiance of their fellow...
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Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a revolutionary who always ‘lived within the truth’
Havel, who presided over a free Czechoslovakia, was tireless fighter against totalitarianism and oppression By James Kirchick NEW YORK DAILY NEWS In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president...
Peter Beinart misdiagnoses…
…everything Curing the Israel Estrangement Syndrome Foreign Policy by James Kirchick – MAY 21, 2010 Peter Beinart’s recent essay denouncing the “American Jewish...
Why shouldn’t we waterboard Abdulmutallab?
Originally published in the New York Daily News By James Kirchick Picture this hypothetical situation: A member of Al Qaeda boards a transatlantic flight bearing 269 passengers and crew headed for a...
Meet Washington’s gay-friendly Orthodox rabbi
By Jamie Kirchick Published in Tablet Magazine When Zvi Bellin, a gay Washingtonian, heard that a vigil was being organized by members of the gay and Jewish communities in the Capitol to memorialize...
Obama’s Jews
By James Kirchick Originally published by the Forward When the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace†group J Street was founded over a year ago, many in the Jewish community predicted that it...
Obama meddles in Honduras – and chooses the wrong side
Cross posted from The New York Daily News, Thursday, July 2nd 2009 by James Kirchick: President Barack Obama has made it clear that he does not want the United States to be seen as...
Wrong ANSWER: Stalinists March in the Capital Pride Parade
From WashingtonBlade.com: SO PERHAPS NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND my dismay at seeing ANSWER rear its ugly head at a gay Pride parade. But given the organization’s “entryism†— a tried and...