Michael Ledeen

Michael Ledeen is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The Times.

Michael Ledeen is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Byron York

Attorney General Barr is looking at internal American spying, and it’s a good thing. But while he’s at it, he should take a hard look at traditional spying.

Turns out, maybe, Hamas was just following orders when they started the latest assault against Israelis. Iranian orders. It’s one of three versions Hamas

The 20th Century was the era of the “new man,” and leftist leaders are preaching the same failed sermon again today. From Mussolini to Mao, the totalitarians

No doubt about it, we are witnessing a revival of what journalist Eli Lake calls American nativism. But this time, instead of the expression of a right-wing “

Barbara and I were married in the Grand Synagogue in Rome in a ceremony that dates back to the fall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Refugees from the

When I was in Europe in the 1980s, starting my research on fascism, I had a German friend, an historian my age who subsequently wrote some excellent books on

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently made an astonishing statement to a small group of journalists, in which he appeared to call for revolution in Iran, and

I will never forget the day Vladimir Bukovsky, the celebrated Soviet dissident, walked unsteadily across a bridge to freedom, having been swapped with the head

Michael Ledeen is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The war is on,”

What we need to do to bring down the regime.

How Trump, Pompeo, Bolton and Mattis need to emulate Reagan’s example.

How to fix it.

Do the American people want to undo what our president has achieved?

How our president is reviving an older more genuine liberalism.

One side grows nastier; the other braver.

As progressives witness the death of their political fantasies, character assassination is all they have left.

They’re hard to find and hard to remove.

The dire lesson of the Freedom Center’s recent victory over censorship.

Why Marxist thinking won’t bring down a murderous tyranny.

What is Plan B?

A recommendation to the president for a winning strategy.

… But chaos is thriving.

The only viable policy on Iran is revolution, not reform.