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It was John Dickinson, composer of the Liberty song, who penned the words in 1768, “Then join in hand, brave Americans all—by uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” Since then, the latter phrase has become a cliché. As we survey the post-cold-war,...

Assimilation is good, except when it isn’t. The lovely Irish should have their Saint Patrick’s Day parades in every city each year, and everyone loves an authentic Italian restaurant, but it had better be regional, and the more obscure the...

And Then There Was One:  Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com September 3, 2013 In an increasingly phantasmagorical world, here’s my present fantasy of choice: someone from General Keith...

From Ian: Alan Dershowitz: A tribute to humanity’s teacher Elie Wiesel was my teacher, my “rabbi,” my mentor, my colleague, and my dear friend. Over the past 50 years, we worked together on numerous human rights projects. Elie did more to bring the...

…rebels are great at exposing and overthrowing corrupt hypocritical regimes, but they seem noticeably less great at the mundane, non-negative task of then establishing a superior governing alternative. Victorious rebels, in fact, seem best at using their...