Sean Durns

2 weeks ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023. But Hamas has done something more.

4 weeks ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

The Washington Post is flailing. The once venerated newspaper is contending with plummeting readership and significant profit losses. A look at the Post’s coverage of the Israel-Islamist conflict offers a clue as to why. As CAMERA has noted, the past few years have found the Washington Post being the center of the story. And it’s often for all of the wrong reasons.

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Sean Durns

In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful and valiant before friends” while being “cowardly before enemies.” Soldiers of fortune, Machiavelli claimed, “have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men.” Such men fill the pages of the journalist John Lechner’s new book, Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era...

1 month ago | denvergazette.com | Sean Durns

The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023. But Hamas has done something more.

2 months ago | camera.org | Sean Durns

Recent revelations about U.S. Agency for International Development funds have prompted many Americans to wonder where and how their tax dollars are being spent. In some cases, nonprofits that bill themselves as serving American foreign policy objectives are, in fact, actively undermining them.