Search Results for: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
August 11, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
The estimable Ayaan Hirsi Ali thinks so. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, she reminds us: Candidate Donald Trump vowed to take a fresh approach to Islamic extremism. He ditched the politically correct language of the Obama administration by declaring that we were mired in an ideological conflict with radical Islam, which he likened to the totalitarian ideologies America had defeated in the 20th century. Mr. Trump also promised, as
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June 29, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a left-wing attack dog operation that defames and bullies those with whom it disagrees about politics. Its designation of political adversaries as “hate groups” — which amounts to an ideological fatwa — is widely used in the liberal mainstream media and employed even by parts of the U.S. government. How to explain this? For one thing, the SPLC is still riding the good
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June 25, 2017 — Scott Johnson
The concept of a “hate group” could be useful. In practice, however, it is like the concept of “hate speech,” applied to shut down heterodox speech and confine the public square to dissemination of officially approved thought. The concepts somehow overlook the likes of the hilariously misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center and its works, which direct something far beyond the Orwellian Two Minutes Hate to the likes of Charles Murray
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June 23, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Last week, Sen. Kamala Harris became the left’s designated victim of the month because she was interrupted by Republican Senators during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Harris kept interrupting the witness, Attorney General Jeff Session, so it’s debatable whether she had a genuine grievance. Nonetheless, the Democrats and their media allies were quick to level hackneyed allegations that, once again, sexist patriarchs have tried to silence a woman
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April 4, 2017 — Steven Hayward
• I gather any day now—maybe today, who cares—we shall once again observe Equal Pay Day, when liberals will hector us about the wage gap between men and women. Kudos to Brent Scher of the Free Beacon for catching yet another example of liberal hypocrisy on this issue: Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Made 71% of Male Staffers’ Salaries in 2016 The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.)
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September 28, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Shimon Peres died this morning in Israel at the age of 93. Marilyn Berger writes his obituary for the New York Times. Tom Gross corrects the Times obituary here. Berger’s obituary is posted with a video on Peres’s life and career with commentary by Clyde Haberman. Raphael Ahren looks back at Peres’s long career for the Times of Israel here. On a personal note, I was invited to attend Israel’s
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April 27, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Getting the chance to interview Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the 2012 Presidential Conference in Jerusalem was one of the highest of the many highlights I’ve had writing for Power Line over the past (nearly) 14 years. (I posted a photo of her with me after the interview along with my retrospective on the conference even though the contrast was…not to my advantage.) I admire her intelligence, her eloquence and her
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January 3, 2016 — Scott Johnson
In the latest installment of his series of Conversations, just posted this morning, Bill Kristol talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I have posted the complete video below (about 60 minutes); it is divided into two chapters as posted here at the Conversations site. I admire her greatly. She is one brave lady. I met her for a brief interview after she spoke at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem in 2012
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December 27, 2015 — John Hinderaker
Italian journalist Giulio Meotti documents the madness that has overtaken British universities–a madness that is eerily familiar: “Rhodes Must Fall” cry the students and professors outside Oxford, many of whom are themselves part of the Rhodes Scholarship group, the program built by the “racist” tycoon to allow foreign students to study at Oxford. It’s exactly like students at Amherst and Harvard denouncing Jeffrey Amherst and Isaac Royall. Meanwhile, across the
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October 25, 2015 — Steven Hayward
Long road trip this week, which is why my dispatches have been light. But much to recount. Perhaps a few of you have tuned in to the some of the installments of CNN’s documentary series on The Sixties or The Seventies. They employ a unique style: rather than have an omniscient Ken Burns-style narrator, they let interview subjects tell the story and stitch it together over video footage and images.
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May 16, 2014 — John Hinderaker
One of the week’s big news stories was the firing of Jill Abramson as Executive Editor of the New York Times. Given how the Times is doing, her departure should be neither a shock nor much of a news story. Male executives in struggling companies, and sometimes in successful ones, are replaced all the time. Yet Abramson’s firing has provoked a firestorm of publicity, most of it over whether she
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May 15, 2014 — Scott Johnson
In his weekly Wall Street Journal column Daniel Henninger chronicles the commencement speakers who have become collateral damage to the tyranny of the lunatic left on campus. As the distance between the left and the lunatic left grows ever closer, attention must be paid. Henninger performs a real service in going in compiling the body count, with respect to which all but the great Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Brandeis was
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May 8, 2014 — John Hinderaker
On tonight’s episode of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience, we reviewed the news of the day: * Brian’s favorite beer for a Thursday night broadcast in the Spring * the Donald Sterling imbroglio and our alienation from the culture * the upcoming Congressional inquiries into the Benghazi and IRS scandals * the predictive power of poll results on Obama’s performance vs. soft issues like women’s issues and gay marriage * The continuing
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April 24, 2014 — Scott Johnson
When Brandeis University withdrew its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to appear at commencement for an honorary degree, I spoke with a knowledgeable source on campus who told me that Rwandan President Paul Kagame was scheduled to visit campus on April 23. I reported on the information provided by my source in “Brandeis breakdown.” Many people believe that Kagame has a lot of blood on his hands and he certainly
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April 14, 2014 — Scott Johnson
I am advised by a knowledgeable source that Brandeis University has engaged or is in the process of engaging a crisis management firm. Brandeis finds itself needing to manage the crisis created by its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree, followed by the withdrawal of the invitation in compliance with the wishes of CAIR and the subset of the Brandeis “community” that is of like mind
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April 13, 2014 — Scott Johnson
I’ve been looking for someone who is knowledgeable about what is happening behind the scenes at Brandeis University in the wake of the withdrawal of the invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree. Yesterday I spoke with such a source. Brandeis has put forward the best case for itself. According to Brandeis, they didn’t know what they were doing when they chose to confer the honorary degree
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April 11, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
Like me, Michael Ledeen finds that “if there’s anything really new about Brandeis’ disinvitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, it’s that they invited her at all.” While many seem surprised that Brandeis, founded by Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, would align itself with Islamists and their apologists, Ledeen finds no underlying inconsistency. Brandeis was the home of professor Herbert Marcuse, the iconic leftist philosopher of the 1960s. Marcuse
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