PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143. I read in a BBC report that the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will survive three more years of this man-child and the misfits and miscreants with whom he has surrounded…
“Oil and ideology.”
Is the flotilla off Venezuela’s coast bluff or a prelude to invasion? And either way, what is behind it? Roughly a quarter of the U.S. Navy’s fleet now floats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, including the U.S.S. Gerald…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank. We watch in horror from afar as…
Patrick Lawrence: Pardon Me?
Wandering among the media over the Thanksgiving weekend…. On Saturday I read that President Trump announced the previous day that he intends to grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, who has been serving a 45–year sentence in a…
“What Is This? Peace in Our Time?”
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers. All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft…
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them. When he looked back much later on the first postwar years—mournfully, a little nostalgically—Arthur Miller, the noted American playwright, wrote of “the beautifully…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine?
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. There are any number of reasons you may not like, or may even…
Patrick Lawrence: The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’
Maybe you saw the video that went public on Nov. 1 wherein Itamar Ben–Givr stands above a row of Palestinian prisoners lying face down with their heads in bags and their hands bound behind their backs. “Look at how they…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese peasants celebrate their distance from the…