Copyright 2026 Judith Miller Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:14:27 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judith Miller :: Writings https://judithmiller.com jmiller@Manhattan-Institute.org (Judith Miller) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us https://judithmiller.com/31437/while-israel-slept Fri, 5 Jun 2026 09:00:00 EST The Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, was an assault about 15 times as large, on a per capita basis, than the 9/11 attacks. When it was over, more Jews had been murdered than on any single day since the Holocaust. How did it happen? While... https://judithmiller.com/31407/behind-the-byline-what-israel-taught-me-about Fri, 8 May 2026 09:00:00 EST When I arrived in Egypt as The New York Times' Cairo Bureau Chief in the early 1980's, I never imagined that I would be spending so much time in Israel. I had barely unpacked when I found myself on a plane to Tel Aviv, not to cover a story in Israel, but... https://judithmiller.com/31385/giant-review Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST By some estimates, the American Jewish community is currently spending some $600 million a year to combat Jew hatred. Now, a new play on Broadway seems destined to further enflame passions, spark alarm, and raise questions about what motivates the... https://judithmiller.com/31395/bat-yeor Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST In late January, I had lunch at Le Rive, a tony, wood-beamed restaurant whose tall windows offered a stunning view of Lake Geneva and its snow-capped mountains. The room buzzed with the sound of diners speaking softly in French and German and the... https://judithmiller.com/31314/could-iranian-terror-strike-the-us Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST In Tehran back in the spring of 1992, I interviewed Ali Akbar Mohtashami, the hardline cleric who cofounded Hezbollah in Lebanon and helped carry out the devastating suicide car-bomb attacks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines in 1983. I recalled his... https://judithmiller.com/31335/cancel-culture-comes-to-trumpland Mon, 9 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST For years, Donald Trump has been among the most vociferous critics of cancel culture, saying it has "absolutely no place in the United States of America." Perhaps not. But it seems to have found a place in his home town of Palm Beach and the... https://judithmiller.com/31235/boca-raton-low-tax-haven Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST "The tax base has gone/To Boca Raton" crooned the singer of a satirical YouTube song that mocked then-Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral bid. Last summer, Mamdani shocked New York's Democratic establishment in a stunning primary... https://judithmiller.com/31243/bentonville Wed, 1 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS — Bentonville is booming. There are more construction cranes per capita here than in any other town of comparable size. One of the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan areas, Bentonville has an annual median household income of... https://judithmiller.com/31135/russian-oil-sanctions Sun, 1 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST It has been a tumultuous few months for relations between the United States and Russia. Last October, President Donald J. Trump, clearly frustrated by his inability to end Russia's aggression against Ukraine, a war he had vowed as a presidential... https://judithmiller.com/31016/unplugged-adventures-from-mtv-to-timbuktu Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:00:00 EST Memoir of a High-Flying Maverick Tom Freston attributes his long-running success as a media entrepreneur who helped shape modern popular culture in America and throughout the world largely to luck. His captivating new book suggests otherwise. Part... https://judithmiller.com/28801/coffee-talk-at-greens Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST PALM BEACH, FLA. — The "season" is now over in Palm Beach, the winter home of some of the nation's wealthiest citizens, and of course, President Donald Trump. The once brief season—four months between Christmas and Easter—now extends from Thanksgiving to... https://judithmiller.com/28761/mike-duggan-detroit-mayor Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST When Mike Duggan, a Democrat, first ran for mayor of Detroit back in 2013, the city was a hot mess — a notorious symbol of urban decline. With the auto industry in shambles and whites fleeing downtown for the suburbs in the wake of the nation's deadliest... https://judithmiller.com/28744/detroit-revival-mike-duggan Sun, 27 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST On a temperate April night, Detroit was buzzing. The historic Detroit Athletic Club—long a favorite for family celebrations—was fully booked. At the Detroit Opera House, director Yuval Sharon's reinvention of Mozart's Così fan Tutte played to a sold-out,... https://judithmiller.com/28734/covid-china-bioweapon Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST A bioweapons expert likely to head the Trump administration's top Pentagon post for countering weapons of mass destruction has charged in a new report that the Covid-19 pandemic was probably the result of a military-research-related accident in a Chinese... https://judithmiller.com/28469/can-nato-survive-without-america Thu, 1 May 2025 09:00:00 EST President Donald J. Trump failed to achieve his often repeated preelection vow to end Russia's war against Ukraine "in 24 hours," but the 47th president still accomplished something extraordinary. In less than three months, he called into question the...