Richard Landes

November 10, 2011

Moral abdication as principled thought: How the Guardian learned to love the bomb

The latest Guardian editorial on Iran’s efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, “Iran: boltin...

November 7, 2011

Liberal Cognitive Egocentrism: Arab mothers are just like everyone.

This is cross posted at Augean Stables by Richard Landes.  His latest book, Heaven on Earth: The Va...

October 31, 2011

The debasement of 9/11 memory, & why the Guardian Left can’t take Palestinian terrorism seriously

The Guardian sure knows how to find them. In a Guardian video post titled “Scott Atran: US for...

October 24, 2011

The Hostage-Prisoner Exchange and the world of imaginative sympathy

This is cross posted by Richard Landes, who blogs at Augean Stables. Landes is the author of: “...

June 20, 2011

The Guardian at 190: Unauthorized CiF Watch Bio, Pt. 3 (1976, Guardian lionizes Mao)

The most important battle in the second half of the 20th century was the West’s ideological wa...

November 7, 2010

The Islamist Demopath and his Dupe

This is a guest post by Mitnaged Prof Richard Landes lists some of the characteristics of demopaths ...

October 22, 2010

The al-Dura hoax, and a true hero of our time

This is cross posted by David Solway at Front Page Magazine:  (For more background on the al-Dura h...

October 6, 2010

Can we learn the right lessons of the Holocaust in time?

This is cross posted from Phyllis Chesler at NewsRealBlog The first conference I ever attended abo...

June 18, 2010

A song for our times

This is a guest post by Mitnaged YouTube is a splendid invention.  It brings people in the world cl...

June 1, 2010

Back with a vengeance

Chris McGreal is back on the Guardian’s pages already and with a vengeance, in more ways than one....