The new Israeli government elected on Tuesday is expected to embrace unilateral disengagement to separate, metaphorically and literally, Israelis and Palestinians.
There is good reason for thinking that a critical source of contemporary radical Islamism lies not in the Middle East, but in Western Europe.
We are in a war of terror being waged by people who take ideas with lethal seriousness, and we had better take our own ideas seriously as well.
It's trendy to be suspicious of people with "deeply held views." And it's wrong.
The death rattles of the European Union's constitution have produced much fretting over the future of Europe. Yet the future is in doubt precisely because so much of the past has been forgotten.
I grew up in Concordia, Kansas. It's a typical small farming community of less than 7,000 people. But in those days Concordia was also the hometown of Senator Frank Carlson, who was a major player in Congress. So it wasn't unusual for people in Concordia to think they had something important to say about government affairs and life in Washington, DC.
2005 marks the bicentenary of the birth of one of 19th century Europes most insightful political thinkers. Less well-known than Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville may have the last laugh when it comes to predicting accurately the course of history.
Michael Novak shared with ZENIT the meaning of liberty, and how democracy affects political and economic liberty and the search for truth.
The division of the world into "liberal" and "conservative" on every topic from politics to our taste in cuisine, clothes, or automobiles is one of the really restricting developments that has ever happened to us.
