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Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of the “Foreign Podicy” podcast.

Actor turned politician Volodymyr Zelensky and his parliamentary allies are political novices who find themselves facing formidable challenges.
To believe or disbelieve is the most foundational right. Until regimes stop punishing “thought crimes,” there is zero chance they will progress to such rights as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
If we reject tribalism and globalism, and if we’re not keen on imperialism, what is the preferable alternative?
In Europe, he defended a vision of benign nationalism, a political order based on free peoples with diverse historical, cultural and religious traditions who come together in support of common values.
A former believer examines “man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion.”
Accounting for the popularity of figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
International law does not license the launching of risk-free wars.
Jew-hatred is as old as the Judean Hills, predating even the rebellion of the Jewish nation against Roman imperialism and colonialism from 66 to 73 C.E. Among the punishments Rome inflicted: renaming the conquered Jewish territories.
Even when our adversaries make it clear that what motivates them is ideology and/or theology, we tell ourselves they don’t really mean it.
Significant factions on both the left and right are adamant that America not be the world’s policeman. A question that should arise: If the United States won’t do that job, who will?
The two-day ministerial in Warsaw about Mideast peace didn’t change the world. But it did highlight ways in which the world has changed.
Students need to be taught and voters reminded that democracy remains “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.”