Joshua Muravchik

The best outcome is a reversion to capitalism. The worst? Hundreds of millions dead.

Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and…

The State Department is reportedly considering a new mission statement that will make no mention of encouraging democracy abroad. A White House aide recently suggested similar thinking would guide the president’s pending National Security Strategy statement.

Freedom diminished around the world in 2016 for the 11th consecutive year, according to Freedom House.

The logical flaw in the indictment of a looming “very bad” nuclear deal with Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered before Congress this month was his claim that we could secure a “good deal” by calling Iran’s bluff and imposing tougher sanctions. The Iranian regime that Netanyahu described so vividly – violent, rapacious,…

Remembering Jan Karski, the Pole who told FDR to his face about the Holocaust, and still wondered if he’d done enough. On a mild, breezy day in Lublin this summer, the chief rabbi of Poland and the former chairman of the Polish conference of bishops presided at a tree-planting ceremony on the grounds of a primary…

While Egypt’s revolution devolves into chaos, Tunisia’s democratic transition, which until now has been the most promising of any in the Arab world, is also in jeopardy. 

In a recent article published by Commentary Magazine, Professor Joshua Muravchik writes about the late Herb Romerstein, who had taught at IWP for many years. 

Columbia University’s English Department may seem a surprising place from which to move the world, but this is what Professor Edward Said accomplished.

Intellectual error is not necessarily bad. It is sometimes the price of imagination and bold thinking. But it may also be the result of sloppy reasoning, wishful thinking, or the venal desire to sell copy. So it is not necessarily good, either.