Prof. Norman Bailey comments on chaos in the Middle East

By Norman A. Bailey

Publication Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Recently much has been made of the so-called "Arc of Shi'ism," from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer "Arc of Chaos," from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the face of an astounding lack of interest on the part of Europe and The United States, only Israel, Jordan and the Gulf states (with the exception of Bahrain), have escaped the encompassing and growing anarchy.  {read more}

Nuclear policy expert speaks to interns about strategic bombing

Publication Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013

In a recent lecture to IWP interns entitled "Strategic Bombing, the Nuclear Revolution, and City-Busting," Professor Henry Sokolski discussed the increasingly relevant ethical questions of the strategic bombing of cities.    {read more}

IWP celebrates Flag Day & the Army's 238th birthday

Publication Date: Friday, June 14, 2013

"If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties." -Henry Ward Beecher  {read more}

Iran's elections don't matter to U.S., professor tells Arabic TV

Publication Date: Friday, June 14, 2013

Iran's elections being held today are illegitimate because all candidates are approved by the mullahs who control the regime, an IWP professor tells a US public diplomacy TV channel. "It doesn't matter who wins the presidential elections in Iran," Provost J. Michael Waller says on Alhurra, an Arabic-language satellite TV channel broadcast to the Middle East. "Every presidential candidate must be vetted and approved by the ayatollahs running the Islamic Republic. There are no 'moderates.' Even former President Rafsanjani, a mullah who was a regime insider, was banned from running."  {read more}

Professor’s memoir about communist Romania to be republished in 2013

Publication Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013

This fall, Transaction Publishers will re-issue Professor Juliana Geran Pilon's memoir, written on the occasion of her return to her native Romania after fourteen years in the U.S.  Entitled Notes from the Other Side of Night, the book describes from a personal perspective two tragic chapters of recent Romanian history: the Holocaust and the communist dictatorship.  {read more}