Gaza rebuttal: vengeance defined
My name is David Levenstein Amory, and I am a Jew. I don’t usually begin my writing with AA-style introductions, [...]
Edgy days in Riga
I just returned to New York after a two-week visit to Riga, the bustling capital of Latvia. My son and [...]
How deep is the wound?
My grandfather was a German Jew who moved from a town in Lower Silesia to Toulouse, in southern France, immediately [...]
Vengeance unleashed
Israel makes war under the cover of a legacy of victimhood. With impunity and at times indiscriminately, it attacks all [...]
The basement war
In June 1967, I was a scaled-down Moshe Dayan in my bunker-like basement. Like the Israeli commander, I wore a [...]
Toward the revival of diplomacy
A war is child’s play with morosely adult consequences. A bully tries to snare a weakling as a means to [...]
Behind the tell-tale phases
Of the many memorable images to have emerged from American involvement in World War II, a handful stand out in [...]
Virus woes or a warning?
China’s total lockdown, ostensibly to control the spread of the Omicron variant, seems at times to be aimed at making a far more important global point.
The worst of times
I was always a fan of 20th-century guidebooks, the vast Baedeker series among my favorites. This love began in my [...]
Letter from an enemy friend
I first met the Russian national I most respect at a conference regarding the future of Russo-Iberian relations held in [...]
A marked man
After decades of political chess, Russia’ s autocratic Vladimir Putin has turned to quick-fix checkers, and it will likely end up costing him dearly, writes contributor David Deropolous.