The ruling, left-leaning Congress Party is failing India. However, their opposition--the BJP--is not ready to enter the global mainstream as a modern conservative party.

The West is in a war of ideas against political Islam, and if free speech is not protected in Europe, we are already losing.

Elections in Iraq will be a plebiscite, too,on which version of Islam should prevail.

The clerical fascists of the Middle East are now vulnerable, terribly vulnerable, which is why theyhopeto distract us from the war against terror, which means the liberation of Iran.

Maurice Roumani has created a masterful account of the last decades of the vanished community of Libyan Jews.

America is exceptional because we periodically feel obliged to hold our most senior leaders to standards with which others might not comply.

Joshua Muravchik reviews After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh.

Mark Steyn, with all his trademarked verbal slapstick and clowning, has produced anew book that is riveting and intensely sobering.