On Weak British Election Analysis in Foreign Affairs

What the British Elections Were All About, New Ledger, May 12, 2010. "It’s not fair to say that Mark Blyth and Jonathan Hopkin’s piece in Foreign Affairs on “Labour Pains: Why the British General Election is a Referendum on Its Past,” is the worst piece of commentary I’ve read on the subject."

Why Islamists Intimidate

Self Censorship Watch, Contentions, August 18, 2009. "I’m not afraid of Islamists. As long as we in the liberal West don’t browbeat ourselves into submission, and as long as we take sensible measures to defend ourselves from the threat of mass terrorism—especially from WMDs—there is no reason for free, modern, and enterprising societies to fear losing to medieval Islamism. What makes me nervous is that there are too few leaders today willing to follow Reagan’s example from the Cold War in saying this, and that there are too many 'opinion leaders' and officials who are eager to split the difference between good and evil."

In Britain, Guess Who's Guilty of Racism?

Jewish Schools in Britain at Risk, Contentions, July 1, 2009. Last week, three British judges ruled that JFS, formerly the Jews’ Free School, in north-west London, racially discriminated against an applicant. The school is state-funded. The school sought to discriminate in favor of Jewish applicants certified by the Chief Rabbi — a procedure formerly thought to be legal, as long as the school was oversubscribed and the discrimination was not based on ethnicity. The judges found that, contrary to a decision by a lower court, what had been “characterised as religious grounds were in fact racial grounds, despite their theological motivation.” In short, the judges held, Jews are an ethnicity, and therefore are not eligible to maintain state-supported schools discriminating in favor of Jewish students, no matter whether they are oversubscribed or not, because such discrimination would be inherently racist."

Are the Three Circles Fading?

The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of the Anglo–American Alliance, Heritage Foundation Lecture #1116, March 31, 2009. This is a revised version of my remarks at the AEI panel on March 17, 2009.

My Panel Presentation on Anglo-American Relations at AEI

Anchor Allies Adrift: Can the United States Depend on Japan and Great Britain?, panel presentation with Dr. Michael Auslin (AEI), with comments by Tom Donnelly (AEI), hosted by Paul Wolfowitz (AEI), March 17, 2009.