Articles

February 28, 2007
Numerical Models, Integrated Circuits and Global Warming Theory
Jerome J. Schmitt
Global warming theory is a prediction based on complex mathematical models developed to explain the dynamics of the atmosphere. A good analogue to climate science is found in the semiconductor industry, which should teach alarmists a little humility. More

February 28, 2007
The Fight Against Sprawl
Christopher Chantrill
Everyone "knows" our American cities are blighted by "sprawl." That's the conventional wisdom in liberal-land. More

February 28, 2007
Why Confront Islamism?
Amil Imani
Why confront Islamism? Because if we don't it will continue to get more extreme. More

February 27, 2007
9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Heads for the Tall Grass
J.R. Dunn
Readers who recall last fall's 9/11 debate in American Thinker between Professor James Fetzer, founder of the 9/1 Scholars for Truth, and me will be interested to learn that an actual confrontation was scheduled this Sunday on Irish National Radio . More

February 27, 2007
The Saint, Algoreia (a poem)
C. MacLeod Fuller
I am the Saint, Algoreia, excélsis Deo Me! Environmental haystacks are just my cup of tea. More

February 27, 2007
Hollywood's Big Ho-Hum
Cinnamon Stillwell
Having recently written about the politicization of various awards, I decided to sit in on Sunday night's Academy Awards just to verify that my criticism was justified. More

February 26, 2007
Global Warming as European Imperialism
James Lewis
The great Global Warming scare is only the latest eructation of European imperialism. Euro-imperialism used to be known as socialism. Before that, it was just called British or French imperialism, because those countries were very proud of it. More

February 26, 2007
Why Europe Won't Be Running the 21st Century
Soeren Kern
For a number of years now the European think tank world has been busy churning out report after report with ever more grandiose proposals for turning the European Union into a global superpower. More

February 26, 2007
Brinksmanship at Airbus
Thomas Lifson
When a political project like Airbus falters while competing with a commercial enterprise like Boeing, political considerations predominate in developing countermeasures. More

February 25, 2007
The Blood Libel Returns
Rachel Neuwirth
With the revival of anti-Semitism as a global phenomenon, everything old is new again. Now, shockingly, the ancient blood libel against the Jews is revived in seemingly respectable quarters More

February 25, 2007
With Friends Like These
G. Andrew Duthie
In Friday's Washington Post, South Carolina Governor (and Republican) Mark Sanford wrote an opinion piece on climate change and politics that indirectly insults his fellow conservatives. More

February 25, 2007
Hosni Mubarak and Robin Hood
Vel Nirtist
The absence of a fair process in making laws, and of due process in enforcing them, produces some pretty odd characters in a society - some good, some bad, some in between More

February 24, 2007
America's Neo-Copperheads
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
The Iraq War has produced a new crop of defeatists as demonstrated by the recent "peace" rallies and the grandstanding of the new Democratic Congress. More

February 24, 2007
A is for Arrogance, B is for Baloney
Pamela Meister
Hillary Clinton made the following promise: "When I' m president, I'm going to send a message to the world that America is back - we're not the arrogant power that we 've been acting like for the past six years. " More

February 24, 2007
New Testament Manuscripts: Discovery and Classification
James Arlandson
This article is the third in a four-part series on New Testament textual criticism. It provides basic facts on how some of the New Testament manuscripts were discovered and how they are classified. More

February 23, 2007
Postwar Eras and their Crises
J.R. Dunn
Postwar eras tend to be overlooked. It's as if they're intermissions between the interesting parts of the historical continuum. More

February 23, 2007
As Went the Dodo so Will Kyoto
Marc Sheppard
February has been a tough month for Global Warming doomsayers. More

February 23, 2007
Nuclear Arms and Moral Equivalency
Bates Estabrooks
On the face of it, objections to the U.S. maintenance of nuclear weapons while denying them to others seems reasonable, but it is premised on a flawed initial assumption. More

February 22, 2007
Let's Agree to Disagree
Michael Nyilis
Barack Obama's official campaign website makes the following claim: "Americans are tired of divisive ideological politics, which is why Senator Obama has reached out to Republicans to find areas of common ground." More

February 22, 2007
Quartet Goes Gaga Over Gaza
David Singer
Gaza has all the trappings of a State except declared Statehood. The 22 members of the Arab League and the Quartet - America, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union - have allowed this farce to continue for the last 18 months. More

February 22, 2007
Iran's Revolutionary Guards ARE the Regime
Clare M. Lopez
When President Bush recently answered a reporter's question about Iranian shipments to Iraq of lethal explosive devices, he was very careful to avoid assigning direct responsibility to the highest levels of the clerical regime. He needn't have been. More

February 21, 2007
Why I - a Staunch Pro-Lifer - Am Voting for Giuliani
Kyle-Anne Shiver
In most of the Presidential elections since 1973, I have been what the pollsters refer to as a "single-issue" voter in my support for vigorous pro-life candidates. But this primary, I'm voting for Guiliani More

February 21, 2007
Rudolph Giuliani?
Selwyn Duke
Rudolph Giuliani for president? Please. There's more chance I'll simultaneously be made head of NOW and the NAACP and be invited to George Soros' next soiree. More

February 21, 2007
See Cynthia and Mohammad Play Tag Team
Michael I. Krauss and J. Peter Pham
One country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mandated to keep the peace by ensuring the security of Israel's northern frontier is Malaysia. More

February 20, 2007
The Self-Humiliation of Airbus
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday, Airbus humiliated itself before the world civil aviation community. More

February 20, 2007
Is Free Europe waking up?
James Lewis
The philosopher Nietzsche once wrote that "thoughts that come on doves' feet change the world." Amidst all the raucous Leftist and Islamist ranting in Europe, one of those silent tidal changes may be on the way. More

February 20, 2007
The World's Champion Villain
Randall Hoven
Much of the world now believes that the United States is a force for evil. More

February 19, 2007
Questioning Mitt's Faith
Thomas Lifson
Like it or not, we are going to be hearing more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. More

February 19, 2007
Unworthy Heirs to Cyrus
Stefania Lapenna
Sadly, the legacy of one of the world's greatest civilizations is in peril, as vandals control the territory once ruled by giants. More

February 19, 2007
The Disenchanted Voter
Pamela Meister
In the last few election cycles, there has been a lot of talk about disenfranchised voters. More

February 18, 2007
Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Convenient anti-Semitism
Paul Miller
Combating bigotry and prejudice of any kind is not an issue that only concerns conservatives and liberals or Democrats and Republicans; it's a moral obligation for all human beings regardless of politics. More

February 18, 2007
Man-made Global Warming - So What If It's a Hoax?
Geoffrey P. Hunt
A small forest of pulpwood has been clear-cut and thousands of keystrokes have been exhausted by the indispensable media heralds warning us about the looming catastrophe from manmade CO2. More

February 18, 2007
Playground Politics
Kyle-Anne Shiver
When I was still young, I believed that I belonged to the best generation ever to grace Planet Earth. We were the boomers! We invented the Generation Gap More

February 17, 2007
Beyond Self-hating
Rachel Neuwirth
The most potent weapon in the arsenal of the Arab and Islamist extremists seeking the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people has always been propaganda. And within this arsenal of Arab-Islamist propaganda, by far the most devastating weapon has been those Jews who participate in manufacturing it. More

February 17, 2007
The Barack Obama Test
Randall Hoven
Sen. Obama claims, "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact." More

February 17, 2007
Iraq and Curve Ball Carl
Michael J. O'Shea
Count on Carl Levin to be a cynic; just don't count on him to tell the truth. More

February 16, 2007
Who's Afraid of Global Warming?
J.R. Dunn
Science works by means of prediction. If the predictions work out, we can regard the hypothesis as proven. If not, we vow to do better next time. More

February 16, 2007
The Brand Image of Nations: Israel
Richard L. Cravatts
The tools of brand marketing throw useful analytical light on the problems Israel faces in the court of world public opinion. More

February 16, 2007
Why It Would Be a Catastrophe to Solve the Arab-Israel Conflict
Rael Jean Isaac
There is no more widely believed proposition in world politics today than that solving the Arab-Israel conflict would contribute to world peace as nothing else could. More

February 15, 2007
Cultural Marxism
Linda Kimball
There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. More

February 15, 2007
De-legitimizing the Troops
Ray Robison
The claim of the anti-war left that they "support the troops" is getting threadbare. The next phase of anti-war playbook: De-legitimize the soldiers. More

February 15, 2007
Obama, Lincoln and the Reformation of Black History
Marc Sheppard
On the 10th day of this year's Black History Month, C-SPAN's coverage of the State of the Black Union conference was preempted in midbroadcast. More

February 14, 2007
PC is the Incubator of Islamism
Amil Imani
Time and again we are told by the politically correct "experts" not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers More

February 14, 2007
Modern Love, American Style
Bookworm
In January, the New York Times proudly announced that, for the first time ever, the majority of American woman are not married. As it turned out, the paper's conclusions were a wee bit premature. More

February 14, 2007
Manufacturing Failure
Christopher Chantrill
It was twenty years ago that we learned of "A Nation at Risk." The problems in our education system were imperiling our national future, wrote the National Commission on Excellence in Education. More

February 14, 2007
Imagination and the Presidency
Vel Nirtist
We've been told that character and personality are quintessential in a successful president. There is one other key skill that I haven't heard mentioned before, which is of key importance: imagination. More

February 13, 2007
The Other Phobia
Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick
"Islamophobia," coined as a term to describe prejudice and fear against Muslims and Islam, has gained institutional legitimacy. It is now used to fend off criticism of anything negative arising from Muslims or Islam. More

February 13, 2007
Modernity and Western Values In the Clutches of Islamization
Magdi Khalil
Muslim reformers of the past century - such as Mohammed Abdu, Refaa Al-Tahtawi, Taha Hussein, Ali Abdel-Razik and others - sought and unfortunately failed to modernize Islam. The militants, led by Hassan Al-Banna and his partisans, won this battle More

February 13, 2007
The Militarization of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
Patrick Poole
In late October, a series of exchanges here at American Thinker debated the extremism or moderation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and oldest Islamist organization in the world More

February 12, 2007
The Left's identification with murderous aggressors
James Lewis
Psychiatry is familiar with an odd syndrome called "identification with the aggressor." It's sometimes called the Stockholm Syndrome. It's back, and on a mass scale. More

February 12, 2007
The Real Children of War
Pamela Meister
Sending children off to fight a war is despicable. Almost equally despicable is the way some on the left exploit the human emotions around this topic to manipulate public opinion. More

February 12, 2007
Weapons of Global Warming Destruction
Noel Sheppard
Since 9/11, there has been an international debate concerning a battle of civilizations. In the few short weeks since the Democrats officially took over Congress, a different war has taken shape within our own borders More

February 11, 2007
Libby Trial: The NBC Connection
Clarice Feldman
The prosecution has rested in the Libby Trial, and like a fish left out in warm weather, a strange and unpleasant odor is becoming more and more apparent as the sun shines on case. More

February 11, 2007
New Testament Manuscripts: the Right Stuff
James Arlandson
This article comes second in a four-part series on New Testament textual criticism. It answers questions about the material and process of making the pages of a document, along with the scribal art of writing. More

February 11, 2007
Code Name: Esther
Saul Goldman
The Biblical narrative of Purim is a tightly-knit story of political intrigue which is set during the reign of Ahashveros (Xerxes). Ahashveros is a weak and insecure individual who is incapable of making decisions on his own. More

February 10, 2007
Stranger than Fiction: Does 24 Inspire Real Life Torture?
Rick Moran
I have called Jack Bauer a thug, someone who would be in jail if he weren't out saving the country every week. And yet the fact that Jack seems to be remarkably untroubled by the methods he uses to battle the terrorists has always been one of his more attractive attributes. More

February 10, 2007
No need for Air Force Three
Matt May
Forget Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrogance in voting to raise the gas tax on Americans five times while she is squired around the Federal City in a government SUV that is exempt from such a tariff. More

February 10, 2007
The Criminal Liability of Lisa Nowak
Philip Averbuck
Spec./Capt. Lisa Nowak faces serious legal jeopardy in Florida. After reading the arrest/charging affidavits, I have to wonder at some of the commentary out there. More

February 9, 2007
Global Warming's Globalist Backers
J.R. Dunn
The other shoe has dropped concerning global warming. Fasten your seat belts: an "international authortity" to act as enforcer has been demanded. More

February 9, 2007
The Strategy and Objectives of Al-Qaeda
Dave Gaubatz
Al-Qaeda is not organized legally as a corporation, but like most multinational enterprises, it has objectives and a strategy to realize them. More

February 9, 2007
Israel's Democracy
Vel Nirtist
Israel is not exactly a new - or even young - country, and yet it would benefit greatly, I think, from carefully considering experience of others - and from learning from her own mistakes. More

February 8, 2007
The Chicago Tribune's Pre-emptive Strike on Rudy Giuliani
Richard Baehr
The Chicago Tribune seems to fancy itself in the role of kingmaker when it comes to knocking candidates out of political races, helping politicians it favors to win. More

February 8, 2007
Ignoring the covert nuclear club
Douglas Hanson
As much as the American people want the potential nuclear confrontation with Iran resolved in our favor, the simple truth is this: the two previous US administrations stuck their heads in the sand concerning the mullahs' efforts to develop nuclear weapons More

February 8, 2007
The IPCC Should Leave Science to Scientists
Marc Sheppard
Of the countless flaws inherent to Pop Science, by far the most pernicious is that, contrary to accepted scientific method, the conclusion precedes any supporting research. More

February 7, 2007
Give me your tired, your poor... and two trillion dollars!
James Lewis
You can't fault Hillary for a lack of ambition. The last time we heard about HillaryCare was in 1994, when the healthcare sector was one-seventh of the US economy. Now it is one-sixth and Hillary wants to control it. More

February 7, 2007
Personality Matters
Jennifer Rubin
Personality has been given a bad name. It is frequently used to denote someone famous for being famous. We use it as a mild compliment when someone's intellect is underwhelming More

February 7, 2007
The $622 Billion Answer
Andrew Sumereau
Why do the American people no longer support our efforts in Iraq? The short answer to all these questions is plain to anyone with an objective view. The government of the United States has evinced a continued lack of seriousness in both our approach and actions in the Middle East and elsewhere. More

February 6, 2007
Renewing the Conservative Narrative
Christopher Chantrill
What a difference there is between a Republican defeat and a Democratic defeat. More

February 6, 2007
The Temperature Also Rises
Selwyn Duke
With the issuing of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on February 2, waxing climactic about the climatic is the order of the day. More

February 6, 2007
Democrats and World War IV
Ted Belman
Democrats by and large are in denial. They believe that America is to blame for terrorism. If only America would stop oppressing the Arabs or stop favouring Israel, terrorism would greatly diminish. More

February 5, 2007
Agent Bond
Clarice Feldman
The Libby trial finished for last week on Thursday with the start of the cross examination of FBI agent Deborah Bond, the interrogator who first questioned Libby. More

February 5, 2007
Fitz the Gullible? --- The Only Explanation
James Lewis
If you believe prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's case against Scooter Libby, you must also be ready to grasp the "evidence" for catastrophic man-made global warming over the next thousand years. More

February 5, 2007
Iran: No Bombs, No Appeasement
Amil Imani
It is only a matter of time before the confrontation between the world and Iran's Mullahs, with the U.S. leading the charge, sets off a catastrophic conflagration. More

February 4, 2007
Pessimism in Iraq and the Myth of Vietnam
Col. Tom Snodgrass
The myth that fighting insurgencies is futile may underlie much pessimism about the current war in Iraq. More

February 4, 2007
Obscenity in Los Angeles in 1966
Paul Shlichta
Once long ago took it upon myself to formulate a universal definition of obscenity-thanks to some help from playwright Bertolt Brecht, artist Ed Kienholz, and fabulist Hans Christian Andersen. Since my collaborators are all dead, I feel obliged to report our collective findings. More

February 4, 2007
The Progressive Ethics of Impropriety
Miguel A. Guanipa
There are some subjects that are so thoroughly offensive, the mere kindling of curiosity about them would make the most uncouth individual feel as if he has been somehow sullied; More

February 3, 2007
Academic Separation and Jimmy Carter
Matt May
Recently, a small band of bishops and clergy of the United Methodist Church began circulating a petition urging Southern Methodist University to reject a proposed plan to affiliate the school with what will be the George W. Bush presidential library. When will these bishops and clergy circulate and/or support a similar petition urging Emory University to cease its relationship with the Carter Center? More

February 3, 2007
New Testament Manuscripts: The Basic Facts
James Arlandson
This article is the first in a four-part series on New Testament textual criticism. It provides the basics on this science and art More

February 3, 2007
Tragicomedy in the Bavarian Alps
Lizas Welt
It is well known that anti-American jokes are in fashion nowadays here in Germany. Whoever, for example, pokes the usual fun at George W. Bush can be more or less sure to have the laughs on his side. More

February 2, 2007
A Necessary Apocalypse
J.R. Dunn
The apocalyptic vision of global warming serves a deep need of the environmentalist credo, the dominant pseudo-religious tendency of our age in the prosperous West. For good or ill, human beings are constructed to believe, and faith has its demands. More

February 2, 2007
Sleeper Cells in the United States and Canada
Dave Gaubatz
There is every reason to suspect that we will endure suicide missions by Islamist sleeper cells. They are already in place. They are waiting for the right time. I know this from experience. More

February 2, 2007
Hussam Ayloush: Poison Discourse Dispelled
Rachel Neuwirth
Hussam Ayloush, the director of the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is fond of comparing Israelis to Nazis and Israel to Nazi Germany. More

February 1, 2007
2007: A Critical Year for Airbus
Thomas Lifson
If Queen Elizabeth II were to describe the year 2006 for Airbus, she would surely call it an annus horribilis. More

February 1, 2007
DePaul and the Duke Lacrosse Case

Aside from their school mascots, there has never been much in common between the Blue Demons of DePaul and the Blue Devils of Duke. Until now, that is. More

February 1, 2007
Public Education and the Liberal Way of Conflict
Christopher Chantrill
Our public schools, liberals teach us, are a foundation of democracy. Without a socialization in which every child partakes of the democratic culture of the public schools we would divide into warring classes and subcultures. That is the liberal line. But some have dared to question it. More