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...
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...