James Kirchick

James Kirchick is the author of 'The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age' (Yale University Press).

Articles

Politics

Corbyn is making the case for Israel better than a Zionist ever could

Jeremy Corbyn would never admit to being a Zionist. The far-left leader of the British Labour Party has called Hamas and Hezbollah – both constitutionally committed to the destruction of Israel  – “friends,” contributed money to a charity operated by a Holocaust denier, and defended a Reverend who claimed Israel was responsible for 9/11 on […]

Politics

The anti-Semitism problem Corbyn created

As a man who has spent the better part of four decades consorting with or expressing sympathy for practically every enemy of liberal democracy – from the IRA to Hamas and Hezbollah, from North Korea to the Soviet Union, Bashar Al-Assad to Vladimir Putin – it’s only natural that Jeremy Corbyn would attract enemies of […]

Economics

Greece’s economic agony will go on and on

Greece’s government debt crisis has always been about two mutually exclusive propositions. First is the Greek people’s attachment, much of it sentimental, to eurozone membership, regardless of its economic sense. This derives from a feeling that Greece is the ur-European nation, the “mother of all democracies”, as French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing memorably said in […]