John David Lewis's Articles
Science & Technology
Urgent Call to Action: EPA Threatens Your Life
John David Lewis September 30, 2008
From John Lewis and Paul Saunders To all Americans: NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD. On July 11, 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR). This document details how the EPA intends to…
History, Reviews
Review: First into Nagasaki, by George Weller
John David Lewis August 20, 2008
John David Lewis reviews First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, by George Weller.
Politics & Rights
Israel and the Front Line of Civilization
John David Lewis June 21, 2008
I just returned from a speaking engagement at Tel Aviv University . . . My honorarium was four days of sight-seeing in Tel Aviv, Abu Gosh, Jerusalem, En Gedi and Masada, and a series of meetings with writers, policy analysts, academics and writers. I came back with one overriding conclusion, which…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Turkey's Turn Back to the Book
John David Lewis May 24, 2008
According to a recent article in the Jerusalem Post (“Is Turkey's Government Starting a Muslim Reformation?” Daniel Pipes, May 22, 2008), a government ministry in Turkey, the so-called “Presidency of Religious Affairs and the Religious Charitable Foundation,” has undertaken a three year project to study and condense thousands of pages…
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: Sun-tzu: Art of War, translated by Ralph D. Sawyer
John David Lewis May 20, 2008
John David Lewis reviews Sun-tzu: Art of War, translated with an introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Defender of Civilization: Andrew Bostom
John David Lewis April 14, 2008
Those interested in cutting to the truth about the Islamic Totalitarian threat that is descending upon—and arising among—all of us should pay special attention to the works of Andrew Bostom. His blog is a must-read, and his articles in The American Thinker are not to be missed. Bostom’s major works…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
An Islamist 'Declaration Against Terrorism'
John David Lewis March 23, 2008
In the "question" period of my recent talk at Georgia Tech, a student's fifteen-minute monologue included the claim that a recent Islamic conference in India had condemned terrorism—and that the western press had ignored this conference. MEMRI covered the conference, which was attended by some ten thousand clerics, scholars and…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Memoirs of a 'Criminal Mind': Georgia Tech, March 13, 2008
John David Lewis March 18, 2008
On March 13, I gave my talk “‘No Substitute for Victory’: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism” to an audience of about forty at Georgia Institute of Technology. In the talk, based on my article in The Objective Standard, I rejected all forms of theocracy, but emphasized the danger posed by…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Menahem Milson on the Meaning of Jihad
John David Lewis December 22, 2007
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has published a first-rate piece on the meaning of jihad: “Jihad Today” by Menahem Milson (Inquiry and Analysis Series, No. 411 , December 20, 2007). The topic of this piece is the concept of jihad—but the author’s abstract theme is that ideas matter. He…
History, Politics & Rights
“Gifts from Heaven”: The Meaning of the American Victory over Japan, 1945
John David Lewis November 20, 2007
Identifies the ideology of sacrifice behind the Japanese aggression that culminated in World War II; documents America’s recognition of this ideology as the fundamental cause of the Japanese assault on the West; explains how America targeted, dismantled, and discredited this ideology, replacing it with the ideas, values, and institutions necessary for the establishment of a free society; and defends America’s use of the atomic bomb as a profoundly moral way to end the war.
Announcements, Politics & Rights
'No Substitute for Victory' now in Hebrew
John David Lewis July 22, 2007
I am proud to note that my article, "No Substitute for Victory: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism," has been transmitted into Hebrew. It appears in Nativ: A Journal of Politics and the Arts, vol. 20, n. 3.116 (May - June 2007). Nativ is published by the Ariel Center for Policy…
History, Politics & Rights
“The Balm for a Guilty Conscience”: Moral Paralysis, Appeasement, and the Causes of World War II
John David Lewis May 20, 2007
Shows how altruism and egalitarianism—combined with guilt caused by these same factors in regard to World War I—led to British appeasement and compromise in the late 1930s, which, in turn, enabled the rise of Nazi Germany and necessitated World War II.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
'No Substitute for Victory': Replies to Criticisms
John David Lewis January 8, 2007
Regarding my article "No Substitute for Victory": The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism in The Objective Standard, readers have brought up several questions that I'd like to answer. Among them are two of great importance: (1) Isn't the enemy stateless, i.e., without the kind of centralized political state that controlled Japan?…
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Politics & Rights
America's Sanction of its Enemies
John David Lewis January 3, 2007
On March 1, 1973, eight Palestinian Black September killers stormed the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum during a send-off party for American Charges d'Affairs George C. Moore. They took Moore, U.S. Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, Jr., Belgian Charges d'Affairs Guy Eid, and two other diplomats hostage. They demanded the release…
Politics & Rights
Regarding: 'Bush's March to the (Mediterranean) Sea,' by Patrick Poole
John David Lewis December 14, 2006
This piece draws on Bevin Alexander's analysis of Confederate Civil War General Stonewall Jackson's plan to march north against Washington, D.C. Rather than remain tied down before Union armies in Virginia, Jackson wanted to take the war to his enemy's capital. Southern leaders, being unable to think more broadly than…