Author Archives: Scott McConnell

About Scott McConnell

Scott McConnell is a founding editor of TAC

Donald Trump Has a Point on Immigration

Donald Trump may be nearly the last person at CPAC from whom …

John Mearsheimer, Accused and Vindicated

A short first person account in the Jewish Week got some attention on …

Rand Paul’s “Hidden Agenda”

Movement conservative opinion on Rand Paul’s filibuster seems roughly split between enthusiasm …

Israel’s Lawyers at Work

Americans For Peace Now’s Lara Friedman gets to the nub of the …

Obama, Losing the Future?

As refreshing as Rand Paul’s filibuster was to an extraordinarily wide ideological …

AIPAC’s Asks: No Sequester and a ‘One-Night’ War

The annual AIPAC conference is perhaps diluted in meaning this year. Obama …

Will Israel Decide When America Goes to War?

Ali Gharib has the goods here on the proposed Lindsay Graham-Robert Menendez …

How Europe Can Prevent a War With Iran

Schadenfreude over seeing the warrior pundits eat crow over Hagel will, alas, …

The GOP: Not That Funny

It is a genuinely sad thing to see the party of Nixon …

The Hagel Foes’ Self-Defeating Witch Hunt

The anti-Hagel brigade has a tactical difficulty, which is becoming a major …

Extremism in the Defense of Tradition

Here Larry Auster faces terminal cancer with courage and serenity. Many in …

Rand Joins the Jackals?

Many in the TAC universe have been watching Senator Rand Paul, looking for …

How to Achieve Normalcy With Israel: Step One

President Obama is visiting Israel next month. Obviously there is little love …

Unz Debates Yale: Is Affirmative Action as Bad as Meritocracy?

Last Tuesday, I went up to New Haven to hear Ron Unz …

Israelis Agree With Hagel: Palestinians Treated Like Animals

Perhaps the saddest moment in the Hagel hearing was to see the …

Hagel on the Dock

I wonder if Chuck Hagel ever had the option of not behaving …

Some Hagel Reax

The Hagel hearings are quite the window into the hawkish wing (that …

For John Hagee, Hitler Was God’s Will, but Hagel Must Be Stopped

The well-funded but secretive campaign against Chuck Hagel has received some important …

Netanyahu’s Choice: Center-Rightism or Racist Nationalism?

How the divestment campaign shaped Israel’s election—and Iran hysteria didn’t.

Al-Qaeda, an Enemy Real but Distant

The Mali crisis and the al-Qaeda attack on the natural gas complex …

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