Human Rights and Mrs. Roosevelt

Posted: Friday, June 1, 2001
Elliott Abrams reviews Mary Ann Glendon's book, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  [Full Story]

What to Do About Sudan

Posted: Monday, May 7, 2001
What is to be done about Sudan? For 18 years, a devastating war has taken a horrifying human toll in Africa's largest country. Best estimates are two million dead, four million uprooted, out of a population of some 35 million.   [Full Story]

Jewish Leaders Need a New Political Approach

Posted: Thursday, March 8, 2001
The blame for the Clinton pardons scandal rests with the former president, but the involvement of several prominent Jews has embarrassed the American Jewish community. It's not just who received the pardons, but how they got them—and with whose support.  [Full Story]

Coping with China

Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2001
Why has China been unable to modernize successfully when not only several of its neighbors in East Asia but also many diaspora Chinese communities have done so? Why has the century-long Chinese search for some form of democracy failed so dismally, burying the hopes and ideals of Sun Yat-sen in the bloody tyranny of the Cultural Revolution and the crushing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square? How can we in the West best help the Chinese people emerge from Communism and find a decent and just political and economic system?   [Full Story]

Candle in the Darkness
Religious freedom is a foreign policy beacon
Posted: Sunday, December 31, 2000
With the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) in October 1998, Congress launched an important experiment in American diplomacy. Could the issue of religious freedom, an orphan in the nation's official human rights effort, be elevated to its proper importance and integrated into the formulation of American foreign policy? As the nation marks International Human Rights Day, the time is ripe for a score card on the administration's efforts to implement this novel initiative.  [Full Story]

China's Religious Repression Imperils All

Posted: Friday, December 29, 2000
The latest move in China’s ongoing anti-religion campaign is as subtle as a sledgehammer. Literally.   [Full Story]

Are young Jews moving toward the GOP?

Posted: Friday, December 1, 2000
American Jews voted Democratic this year, as we have every four years since the New Deal. This year's total appears to be about 80/20 Gore over Bush, a strong showing for the Gore/Lieberman ticket.  [Full Story]

When—If Ever—Should America Intervene?

Posted: Friday, December 1, 2000
The bloodiest century in history has closed with a new idea: that lives can be saved if foreign troops are willing to shoot human-rights violators before they begin-or at least before they complete-their tasks, and that, since lives can be saved this way, morality requires that we not shrink from the task, wherever it takes us.   [Full Story]

Banishing the Bible from Campus

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
How would the American Jewish community react if, at a prestigious college someplace, the Hillel society were thrown off campus?   [Full Story]

The Mideast "Peace Process" and U.S. Interests

Posted: Friday, September 1, 2000
The usual accounts of American policy toward the Arab/Israeli conflict in the 1990s stress discontinuities, at least on two sides of the triangle: in Washington and in Jerusalem. In Israel, the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir gave way to a Labor government dedicated to peace. Under Yitzhak Rabin and, after he was assassinated, Shimon Peres, Israel sought an accommodation with the Palestinians. In the United States, unfriendliness toward Israel under the Bush/Baker administration gave way to the warm friendship of the Clinton administration, which even many American lews apparently regard as "the best friend Israel ever had in Washington." Unfortunately, the Clinton efforts were frustrated when, from 1996 to 1999, a Likud government came back to power and under Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's policies reverted to the obstructionism of Shamir. So goes the most popular account.  [Full Story]