If there is a clash of civilizations, it is not between the Judeo-Christian West and Islam, as Huntington and others have often seen it.
Luma Simms
When it comes to immigration, the fundamental question is: how can we help people find a home? Contra Somin, the answer is not no borders, but humane ones.
It is wrong to think of immigration primarily as a problem to solve—as an “it” when it is really a “he,” “she,” and “they.”
If “persecution” of Christians can be used with any kind of sincerity in our context, it is the feeling of general impotency which comes from decadence.
Khomeini rejected democracy because of its “Western dimension.”
Immigration offers socio-economic challenges, but also spiritual ones.
Hazony on the metaphysical source (much devalued in our day) of the nation.
Democracy is not impossible in the Middle East, but a people, a nation, a culture, must work out its own form of government.
The suppression of the Green Movement last time around widened the gulf between Iran's elite and its people.
Eugene Rogan lays too much at the feet of colonialism and imperial Europe.
The road to liberty in Iran, and throughout the Middle East, is through the moral power of recognizing human dignity.