Copyright 2026 Daniel Pipes Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:05:17 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Writings https://www.danielpipes.org daniel.pipes@gmail.com (Daniel Pipes) webmaster@danielpipes.org en-us https://www.danielpipes.org/22747/three-sides-three-errors Fri, 3 Apr 2026 21:37:36 EST Each of the three central actors in the current conflict made a central mistake about its enemy. U.S. and Israeli leaders misunderstood key developments taking place in early January, while the Islamic Republic of Iran misjudged its neighbors. These https://www.danielpipes.org/22670/israel-now-endangers-diaspora-jewry Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:46:25 EST For over 75 years, the State of Israel has taken pride in protecting worldwide Jewry as well as its own citizens. The current surge in antisemitism, however, reveals a collapse in this dual promise and obligates Diaspora leaders to adopt a new https://www.danielpipes.org/22690/it-started-in-damascus Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:19:40 EST Ignore the overblown title and the publisher's rush to get this book out quickly following Syria's December 2024 revolution; its charm and power lie in the evocation of nearly 55 years of life under the Assads, father and son, 1970-2024. Although a https://www.danielpipes.org/22643/mamet-misconstrues-military-slavery-history Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:33:25 EST To the Editor: David Mamet's op-ed "Sorry, Billionaires—There's No Escape" (Aug. 7) establishes that, come the apocalypse, no amount of money will help the ultrarich reach safety because their aides will revolt and take over. To emphasize his point, Mr https://www.danielpipes.org/22627/the-momentous-turkish-vs-israeli-battle-over-syria Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:18:58 EST How to understand the fighting in Syria between the central government in Damascus and its many foes, including Alawites, Kurds, Druze, and the Israel Defense Forces? During its first quarter-century of independence, 1946-70, a weak Syrian state served https://www.danielpipes.org/22608/what-just-happened Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:18:35 EST For those who follow international politics, the days following Israel's June 13 attack on Iran meant an addictive check of the smartphone every few hours to learn the latest twist. From that avalanche of surprises, twelve stand out, one marking each day https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2025/06/updates-on-the-persecution-of-alawites Tue, 1 Jul 2025 08:44:35 EST My article "'Are you Alawite?': A Call to Prevent Genocide in Syria" covers the experience of Alawites under the Sunni regime that came to power in December 2024 through May 2025. This blog continues coverage of that topic. According to the Syrian https://www.danielpipes.org/22584/are-you-alawite Sun, 1 Jun 2025 12:46:47 EST No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, 2025, but Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma estimates more than three thousand. While Alawites constitute but a small religious community, perhaps 10 percent of https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2025/04/anti-hamas-protests-persist Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:23:10 EST I published an article on April 4, "Gazans, 'The Bravest People on Earth,' Confront Hamas" about the activities that peaked in late March. The protests continue but the media tends to ignore them, so X provides much of the information. Here are some https://www.danielpipes.org/22523/democratic-party-not-to-blame-for-republican-chaos Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:35:43 EST As a lifelong Democrat, I was offended by Daniel Pipes's self-serving history of American politics, "Angry conservatives, explained" (Opinion, March 1). Since the early 20th century, the United States has benefited from the leadership of two political https://www.danielpipes.org/22531/slavery-abolition-and-islam Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:23:45 EST Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to actively challenge 'modern slavery' across the globe." Having established that, he poses a first question, one https://www.danielpipes.org/22530/possessed-by-the-right-hand Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:58:25 EST Recalling Muhammad's apocryphal last words about Muslims needing to take care of their slaves, Freamon, a Black American Muslim and professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School, argues that they "have not lived up to this admonition" either in law or in https://www.danielpipes.org/22529/reform-and-its-perils-in-contemporary-islam Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:50:30 EST In her interesting and significant book, Oweidat, a historian at Kansas State University, focuses for three reasons on the life and work of Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010). First, in a case that attracted international attention, a Cairo https://www.danielpipes.org/22528/oman-transformation-after-1970 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:36:21 EST Connoisseurs of improbable history will forever appreciate Oman in 1970. That is when the 59-year-old sultan of the world's most insular and backward-looking government, Sa'id bin Taimur, found himself deposed by his 29-year-old son, Qaboos, who turned https://www.danielpipes.org/22527/nazis-islamic-antisemitism-and-the-middle-east Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:42:54 EST Strangely, as the decades pass since the Nazi regime fell in 1945, historians assess its impact on the Middle East as greater and greater; Küntzel's excellent study adds significantly to that process. Coming out of a far-left background, for the past