This speech was delivered at the Conference of Speakers of European Union Parliaments on 12 May 2025, Budapest. Good morning. Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I warmly and cordially welcome […]
In a different world, “Free Palestine” might have been a noble rallying cry—a call for peace, justice, and human dignity for all people in the region. But we don’t live […]
“The best time of our lives is when our country calls upon us” [Ora me e bukur, eshte ora kur te th’rret atdheu] is Sali Berisha’s most famous and inspiring […]
Review by Paula Weiss Image by Freepik We are not meat Legos I have been out-dystopianed. I was prepared to read a conventional screed against the impact of second-wave feminism […]
The resort to violence has become the characteristic American response to a world that seems to many to lie beyond their control. Almost from the beginning, violence wrote itself into […]
European and American Elites Take Offense to Claim That Europe is a Weakling on Free Speech and Democracy. Vice President J.D. Vance went to Europe, specifically Germany, last week and […]
“Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Well, thank you very, very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, […]
A Hindu family in New Jersey celebrates the festival of Janmashtami (from ISKCON of New Jersey, 2020, reprinted by Migration Policy Institute)
Review by Paula Weiss We’re not out of the woods yet, but we never are. When Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I was reading this book, and wondering whether […]
Having been ill over the Christmas period my regular readers have experienced a bit of a gap in my articles here, for which I apologise. Four or five days can […]