Law professor Peter Berkowitz is one of Giuliani’s neoconservative braintrust: “his Senior Statecraft, Human Rights and Freedom Advisor.” In a piece in the Weekly Standard a couple of years ago, the new human rights and freedom advisor expressed grave concern…
Three weeks ago I reported that Newsweek senior editor Michael Hirsh said at a SAIS panel that the “Israel lobby” was pushing for an attack on Iran. Hirsh was liberated to state what is obvious, I ventured, by the effect…
It takes me a while to understand stuff I see with my own eyes. In my post last night about CAMERA’s conference on Israel’s Jewish defamers (which I paid $40 to attend), I failed to linger on executive director Andrea…
Yesterday CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) held a conference on fighting “Jewish defamers of Israel.” A couple hundred people in the basement of the Park Avenue Synagogue– that beacon to assimilationist German Jews. I…
On his book tour, Alan Greenspan has been talking about the dangers of capitalism. Sounding the socialist, he sees a moral problem with the rising gap between rich and poor. The unprivileged will begin to question the rightness of capitalism…
After their ’60 Minutes’ appearance, I’m on Valerie Plame and Robert Wilson’s side. During the Iraq war horror, they were patriots, and they paid a price. Wilson stuck his neck out on a big lie. Period. I still don’t buy…
Iranian-American realist scholar Trita Parsi, a protege of Fukuyama, has been making the rounds of the left to talk about his new book Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S. The book is extremely powerful. After…
Yesterday Manny Ramirez said it wasn’t the end of the world if the Red Sox don’t beat Cleveland. Shocking. Tucker Carlson said on his show that he thinks Manny is smoking pot. Last night Ramirez went two for four (though…