Clifford D. May

To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter

Chamath Palihapitiya is a household name - at least in the kind of houses featured in the Wall Street Journal's weekly "Mansion" section.

January 25, 2022

All the president’s enemies

As he begins his second year in office this week, President Biden looks toward the horizon and sees multiple challenges and threats.

January 18, 2022

The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question

Historians usually date the start of the Holocaust to June 1941 when German troops invaded the Soviet Union, identified Jewish civilians, lined them up and shot them by the thousands.

January 11, 2022

U.S. adversaries are becoming South American conquistadores

In November 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, addressing the Organization of American States, made news by announcing: "The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over."

January 4, 2022

American Revolution was not about tyranny (or slavery)

Science is never settled. Among those who established that: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Einstein. History is never settled either. No one has done more to establish that than Andrew Roberts, the great British historian.

December 29, 2021

Biden’s weak defense of democracy

The Summit for Democracy upset China's totalitarian rulers. That's the most positive thing I can say about the two-day virtual conference convened by President Biden earlier this month.

December 22, 2021

China, Russia and Iran: The empires strike back

Let's play Jeopardy! The answer: "All were great empires in the past, and all now have rulers determined to establish great empires in the future." And the question is: "What are China, Russia and Iran?"

December 15, 2021

Beijing’s strategy for global dominance

The Cold War was a struggle for global supremacy between two superpowers. It ended thirty years ago this month when the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.

November 30, 2021

Saule Omarova: Biden’s leftist banker

For decades, Joe Biden was known as a man of the center-left, a normal guy, a regular Joe. His views have changed. I'm going to venture a guess as to why.

November 23, 2021

United Nations’ transnational bureaucrats now do Beijing’s bidding

For decades, the United Nations has wasted billions of dollars, achieved little, and tolerated misconduct - the Oil-for-Food scandal and sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers are just two examples.

November 16, 2021

Chill out about global warming

At the United Nations Climate Summit (aka COP26) in Glasgow last week, President Joe Biden declared that climate change is "the existential threat to human existence as we know it."

November 9, 2021

Bernard-Henri Levy’s dispatches from troubled lands

Bernard-Henri Levy is a philosopher, author, filmmaker, reporter, and bon vivant.

November 2, 2021

Why Hamas fights Israel

In 2005, Israelis conducted a bold experiment.

October 26, 2021

Biden’s bungled border security is a national security crisis

If I lived in poverty under an oppressive government in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, or Asia, I'd want to go to the United States.

October 19, 2021

Remember the Battle of Lepanto

Last week, Oct. 7, to be precise, was the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. Why should you give a flying fig?

October 12, 2021

All of the lowlights from the United Nations General Assembly session

Over recent days, foreign leaders, rulers, and tyrants flocked to New York City for the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, also known as UNGA. Did you listen to their speeches?

October 5, 2021

The Squad loves dead Jews: Support for Hamas implies nothing less

"People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present" is the title of Dara Horn's new book.

September 28, 2021

Time for U.S. to unfriend Pakistan

Who's to blame for America's humiliating surrender in Afghanistan? We would be remiss to ignore the contributions of others to this historic fiasco. Prominent among them: Pakistan's leaders.

September 22, 2021

After twenty 9/11 anniversaries, the sleeping giant nods off again

On the first anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks, I wrote a column about a BBC radio program

September 7, 2021

Taliban call the shots as America’s humiliation continues

"The answer is no." That was the response, on Aug. 24, of Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen to a Sky News reporter who asked if the U.S. might be permitted more time to evacuate American civilians.

August 31, 2021