Joshua Muravchik is a Distinguished Fellow at the World Affairs Institute, Former Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Former Aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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Socialism Fails Every Time
The best outcome is a reversion to capitalism. The worst? Hundreds of millions dead.
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Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
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…
Read More ›What Trump and Tillerson don’t get about democracy promotion
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.
Read More ›This is what the beginning of the end of democracy looks like
Freedom diminished around the world in 2016 for the 11th consecutive year, according to Freedom House.
Read More ›War with Iran is probably our best option
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,…
Read More ›Prof. Joshua Muravchik discusses problems with Tunisia’s democratic transition
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.
Read More ›Prof. Joshua Muravchik remembers the late Herb Romerstein in Commentary Magazine
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.
Read More ›Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said
Columbia University’s English Department may seem a surprising place from which to move the world, but this is what Professor Edward Said accomplished.
Read More ›Alive and Well: American power and influence need not be on the wane
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.
Read More ›Obama’s second term: two views on the Peace Process – view one
Conventional wisdom says that time is running out on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The opposite is more nearly correct. While a two-state solution remains, and will remain for the foreseeable future the only feasible solution, the conflict is not yet soluble.
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