Amitai Etzioni is a sociologist and professor at George Washington University known as a leading voice in the communitarian movement. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics including values, diversity, religion, and foreign policy. A prolific author and public intellectual, he has written extensively on ethics, social institutions, and national security.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is incessantly criticized, and not only from the left, for a variety of safety measures it introduced in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Senator Patrick Leahy, for example, said in November 2001, "We don't protect ourselves by bending or even shredding our…
ON OCTOBER 17, bombs killed 6 people and wounded 143 in Zamboanga, the Philippines. While press accounts mentioned in passing that the victims were Christians, few conveyed to the reader that these were people assaulted by Muslim extremists because of their religion. On September 25, militant…
Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Oxford University Press, 446 pp., $30 IN "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East," Michael B. Oren gives a meticulous, blow-by-blow history of what is, unfortunately, an old-fashioned…
EVEN AMERICANS who don't care squat about abstractions such as "race relations" might well be infuriated to learn that -- under an order issued by the Clinton White House, which George W. Bush could yet rescind -- the U.S. Census is following a deep South tradition: Americans who check both "black"…
EVEN AMERICANS who don't care squat about abstractions such as "race relations" might well be infuriated to learn that -- under an order issued by the Clinton White House, which George W. Bush could yet rescind -- the U.S. Census is following a deep South tradition: Americans who check both "black"…
The Iron Wall
INTELLECTUALS ARE ABOUT AS SUSCEPTIBLE to fashion as car makers; a little less so than designers of ties. Currently "civil society" is as chic as it gets. The scholar to quote is Harvard political scientist Bob Putnam. From the headquarters of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City io the…