The quarterly publication International Economy asked a number of analysts whether they agree or not with former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich that (in IE‘s words) “the present-day global situation bears a striking resemblance to 1935, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pursuit of nuclear weapons capability - not to mention his anti-Jewish sentiments - strikingly similar to Adolf Hitler’s quest in the 1930s for weapons superiority.”
Daniel Pipes, a historian, has led the Middle East Forum since its founding in 1994 and currently serves as chairman on the board of directors. He taught at Chicago, Harvard, Pepperdine, and the U.S. Naval War College. He served in five U.S. administrations, received two presidential appointments, and testified before many congressional committees. The author of 16 books on the Middle East, Islam, and other topics, Mr. Pipes writes a column for the Washington Times and the Spectator; his work has been translated into 39 languages. DanielPipes.org contains an archive of his writings and media appearances; he tweets at @DanielPipes. He received both his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard. The Washington Post deems him “perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam.” Al-Qaeda invited Mr. Pipes to convert and Edward Said called him an “Orientalist.”
