The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Wester….

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed..

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with o….

I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the su….

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of ….

The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They w….

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem i….

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate..

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Muslim or at least Arab countries developing some form of organization comparable to the European Union. I don….

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics..

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ….

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods..

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights..

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, im….

These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national ….

The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultur….

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. We….

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it i….

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre….

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history..

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment.….