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: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them. I never thought I would see the day, but the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: My Bigotry Is Better Than Yours
Graham Platner, a combat veteran running a Democratic primary campaign for a Maine seat in the U.S. Senate, is getting hit with caricatures, which is the worst form of bigotry. Let’s look at him in 3-D. Jiminy Crickets. I hope…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews
This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition. At last, at last, Jews with powerful voices have gathered en masse — a critical mass, I would say —…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House. What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media. It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is. All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century. There is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in…
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…