Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Paul Wolfowitz

3 articles 2011–2014

Paul Wolfowitz is a political scientist and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005) who also served as President of the World Bank. A prominent neoconservative foreign policy thinker, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard reflecting on heroism, leadership, and tributes to fellow intellectuals such as Fouad Ajami.

Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014

June 23, 2014 · Paul Wolfowitz, Scholar, Lebanon

The death of Fouad Ajami this weekend, at the age of 68, deprived this country and the world of a uniquely powerful voice – one that is at the same time both Arab and American – that could have helped guide us, as he has in the past, through the hazards and complications of his native Middle East.  

A Time of Heroes

September 19, 2011 · Paul Wolfowitz, Magazine

This tenth anniversary of that grim September day when so many innocent people died in the most horrible fashion is a time to mourn their loss, as well as the thousands who have been lost in the past 10 years of the war against global terrorists, and to share in the grief of the loved ones they…

A Time of Heroes

September 9, 2011 · Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq, Afghanistan

This tenth anniversary of that grim September day when so many innocent people died in the most horrible fashion is a time to mourn their loss, as well as the thousands who have been lost in the past 10 years of the war against global terrorists, and to share in the grief of the loved ones they…