Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. Eight million Israelis are surrounded by some 400 million Muslims in more than 20 states. Almost all of Israel's neighbors are anti-Israeli dictatorships, monarchies or theocracies-- a number of them reduced to a state of terrorist chaos.
Alan Blinder has written another Wall Street Journal article criticizing legislation that would simply require the Fed to describe its rule or strategy for monetary policy. As with his earlier article, Blinder still “shoots at a straw man of his own making, not at the proposed law itself” as I wrote in another John Taylor’s Reply to Alan Blinder for the Wall Street Journal.
Distinguished Fellow George Shultz and Distinguished Visiting Fellow Henry Kissinger along with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testify on Global Challenges and the U.S. National Security Strategy before the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
Few pay much attention to scholars of Latin and Greek. They master languages that are not spoken. They learn to write them only to read them better. They slap your hands when you write a Latin word common in Sallust or Livy, rather than in Cicero.
The fourth episode of Rational Security, the new podcast Shane Harris is doing with me and Tamara Cofman Wittes, is now out. In it, we discuss the Russian spy ring broken up this week, the drone crashes on the White House grounds and along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the link between autocracy and terrorism.
At the beginning of January, Governor Jerry Brown stated in his 2015 State of the State/Inaugural address that "California has seen more than 1.3 million new jobs created in just four years and the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.2%." This statement perfectly encapsulates the elation so many in Sacramento have when talking about the Golden State's economy.
Events which took place at a Washington and Lee School of Law symposium on “Cybersurveillance in the Post-Snowden Age” include a speech by General Michael Hayden about NSA and surveillance matters.
Senior Fellow Harvey Mansfield discusses the distinctive characteristics of our two political parties and political theory on Conversations With Bill Kristol.
While New York seems to be weathering Winter Storm Juno well, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute Chester E. Finn, Jr., recently noted another climate shift change in the Empire State. New York. Finn explains in a recent New York Daily News editorial:
Gary Roughead, former US chief of naval operation, said China must solve its territorial dispute with Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea through peaceful means in an interview with China's Global Times last year.
