The Mirage of the Arab Spring
In our November/December issue, Clifford D. May says the Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab World:
"Once the dictators fell, it became apparent...
For centuries, political philosophers have thought of democracy as a Greek idea, but it turns out there are a myriad of ways to attribute democratic ideas to the Jewish people. Noah Feldman, Jodi Kantor, Ruth Wisse, Ed Koch, Shlomo Avineri and others weigh in.