Lee Harris is a writer and political philosopher known for his essays on Western civilization, Islamic radicalism, and geopolitical strategy. He contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2012, writing on topics including Islam, the Tea Party movement, and Iranian foreign policy. He is also the author of several books, including *Civilization and Its Enemies* and *The Suicide of Reason*.
In an interview on CNN, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that “we are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor,” from which he derived his conclusion that “we also know, or we believe we know, that Iran has not decided to make a nuclear weapon.” In making this…
A New Shoah
The English-speaking peoples are justifiably proud of their tradition of free speech. When Thomas Macaulay reviewed the achievements of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, he observed that the victorious English Whigs had shown how "the authority of law and the security of property" could be…
To the memory of Oriana Fallaci