Reihan Salam

An essay by Reihan Salam, titled "The Death of Macho," suggests that the next global conflict will be centered on gender, not race nor clashing civilizations. Salam explains why he thinks male dominance is nearing its end, and the rationale behind his new piece, as published in Foreign Policy magazine. Link to audio

The era of male dominance is coming to an end.

Seriously.

For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women. Today, the Great Recession has turned what was an evolutionary shift into a revolutionary one. The consequence will be not only a mortal blow to the macho men’s club called finance capitalism that got the world into the current economic catastrophe; it will be a collective crisis for millions and millions… more

Glenn Beck is an American hero. Considered a buffoon at best by his liberal detractors, Beck is in fact a showman par excellence who draws on the passions of a small and alienated minority to create a television program that has done more to keep Americans safe than 10,000 public-service announcements. And for that, he deserves a medal from the Department of Homeland Security.

In part one of a three-part series, The Nation's Washington editor Chris Hayes debates Reihan Salam of The National Review over healthcare. Is it a universal human right, as Hayes says, or a responsibility, as Salam says? What's the best system for implementing healthcare in the United States? Will it save money or cost money? Watch and decide. Link to video

After a day of nonviolent protests in Iran, seven Iranians died after anger boiled over and a gaggle of anti-Ahmadinejad activists threatened to set fire to the headquarters of the Basij, a notorious loyalist paramilitary that does the domestic dirty work of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The teenage Basijis are the acne-ridden thugs who savagely beat women who dare to violate the dress code imposed by Iran's supposedly Islamic regime, and they've long been a pillar of the country's quasi-fascist… more

The great strength of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been its ability to mask its fundamentally authoritarian character with the trappings of democratic elections. To be sure, the only candidates who are allowed to run for office are those who accept the basic--and very narrow--contours of Iran's constitutional order. Those who believe that the state treasury shouldn't be used as a piggy bank for elite military officers and their mistresses and cronies, for example, are ineligible for office, which… more

What's needed instead, said Reihan Salam, co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream,” is “something new — the anti-Obama, anti-Reagan.” Mr. Salam, whose co-author is Ross Douthat, ...

With few exceptions, President Obama's Cairo University address has been welcomed, by Americans and voices across the Muslim Middle East, as a rare and remarkable gesture. The most striking aspect of the address, by now a familiar part of the Obama style, was its evenhandedness. The president came across less as a truculent defender of America's interests and aspirations and more as an impartial, scholarly figure who hoped to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable.

Matthew Continetti, of the Weekly Standard, and Reihan Salam, of the New America Foundation discuss the week's major happenings in politics, including big automotive news and President Obama's recent trip to Egypt.