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Obama's Enemies List
Peter Wehner
Islamist Extremism and the Murder of Daniel Pearl
Joseph I. Lieberman
Why Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense
Steven Price
How Politics Destroyed a Great TV Show
Jonah Goldberg
October 2009
Why Are Jews Liberals?—A Symposium
David Wolpe, Jonathan D. Sarna, Michael Medved, William Kristol and Jeff Jacoby
September 2009

Don't Wait for Russia

Emanuele Ottolenghi weighs in on why stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions is not in Russia's interests.

In "Some Thoughts on Barack Obama's Awful Evening," Peter Wehner enumerates what the Election Day results mean for both the GOP and Obamaism.

Commentary Conference of Ideas Aboard the Navigator

5:25 PM, 11.04.09

Last night's exciting and unpredictable election returns suggest 2010 is going to be a political ...

Do Words Matter?

5:06 PM, 11.04.09

Today in Cairo, Hillary Clinton held a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed ...

Immediate Fallout

3:53 PM, 11.04.09

One immediate fallout of the NY-23 experience: the Republican Senate Campaign Committee is bugging ...

The New Karine A

2:52 PM, 11.04.09

Israeli Navy commandos seized a cargo ship last night en route from Iran to Syria. It contained ...

Tom Friedman Bashes Contractors

12:28 PM, 11.04.09

It's a little odd to see Tom Friedman, normally the high priest of globalism, in a lather about ...

Islamist Extremism and the Murder of Daniel Pearl

Joseph I. Lieberman

Sen. Joseph Lieberman remembers the slain journalist and how his "legacy is a powerful one, precisely because he embodied so many of the best values and convictions of our country and of the Jewish faith and people."

The Keynes Bubble

John H. Makin

Where does the field of economics stand in the wake of the financial meltdown?

Leaving Them Wanting More

John Podhoretz

From the Editor

How We Can Win in Afghanistan

Max Boot

The McChrystal way is the only way.

Afghanistan and the Liberal Collapse

Abe Greenwald

Those politicians who charged their political rivals with failing to keep “their eye on the ball” are turning a blind eye to the consequences of defeat. Will Obama be one of them?

What Price Popularity?

James Kirchick

Pursuing the favor of global publics has not shown the results President Obama heralded; it may be making things worse.

The Real Irving Kristol

Norman Podhoretz

A provocative and uncompromising polemicist.

Toddlin’ Town

Joseph Epstein

How the brazen, bulging, tough-guy city of my youth has subtly transformed itself into a resplendent, but very different, city of youth.

What the Tories Have to Teach Us

David Frum

Four lessons for American conservatives from the political changes across the pond.

Intel and the Israelis

Dan Senor and Saul Singer

How, twice in a quarter century, upstarts in Israel revolutionized the world’s leading maker of computer chips.

A Man in Thrall

John J. Clayton

She clung to him as if she wanted their cells to merge, and she keened—because it seemed like the end, and tragic; or, more tragic, still more tragic, not the end. If I can’t live with you, I’ll die.