Israel at 70: there’s no failure like success
On Wednesday, Israel marks seventy years of statehood. When David Ben Gurion declared independence on May 14th, 1948—the anniversary floats…
Bombing Syria would be a grave mistake
‘The whole of the Balkans,’ Otto von Bismarck said, ‘is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.’ He…
The West’s defeat in Syria is complete
The Syrian civil war is in its endgame, and the ‘political solution’ that the leaders of the Western democracy talk…
The 2018 Oscars were indulgent, overlong, and weirdly amateurish — again
It was always going to be difficult for this year’s Oscars to balance politics and entertainment, the sweeping declaration with…
Oscars 2018: and the winners are…
Tomorrow night, TV viewers will take to their couches for a night of Hollywood glamour, razzmatazz and gross hypocrisy. A…