Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says he fears the state of American political discourse, as radical rhetoric races through the veins of the body politic. That extremism, combined with massive economic dislocation and digital technology that gives every anonymous extremist a printing press, could lead to violence, he said in an interview Wednesday with the Sun editorial ...

Gstaad A London friend has sent me a book whose subject caused a few faint complaints in the beginning but has now escalated to a full-scale furore, Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Racist and anti-Semitic have been the operative words used by outraged pundits to describe it, while people such as the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and ...