Favorite Liberals Dept. I’m adding Sam Harris to my list: I don’t know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate. The truth is that there is every reason to believe that a terrifying number of… Continue reading

“Pope Benedict will have done Islam a service if he has started a debate within Islam and between Islam and the critics.”

Pope suggests that Muslims have a problem with violence. Muslims take to the streets … and burn his effigy. As my friend Zippy says: Real life: better than any parody.

Paul Bauman deconstructs Damon Linker.

The costs of attacking Iran will be terrible, writes Charles Krauthammer. But the costs of doing nothing are even more so: In the region, Persian Iran will immediately become the hegemonic power in the Arab Middle East. Today it is deterred from overt aggression against its neighbors by the threat of conventional retaliation. Against a… Continue reading