To its great credit, The Times has a piece today on Route 443 in the West Bank, a modern highway Palestinians can’t use. Based in part on Gershom Gorenberg’s research, the piece twice uses the a-word: The Association for Civil…
The Daily Lobo in New Mexico has a wonderful letter today from a Vicki Johnson comparing the Tibetan occupation to the Palestinian one. Israel has tortured Palestinians, and China has tortured Tibetans, including female monks. Perhaps inspired by ancient China,…
Last week two Harvard Law School professors had a fascinating debate over the Iraq war and American power. One professor was Duncan Kennedy, a pioneer in critical legal studies–i.e., a leftwinger. The other was a prof barely half his age,…
The latest issue of Commentary has a solemn black-bordered memorial to William F. Buckley Jr. as a “master” and “cherished friend” (and the magazine’s editor, John Podhoretz, offered this vaporous and largely meaningless eulogy). Buckley has also been fondly eulogized…
Everyone seems surprised by Hillary’s numbers tanking. I think water is finding its own level. Hillary has never been especially popular. People just don’t like her, this has always been true, and the Democratic race seems to be heading toward…
The New Republic is calling for Obama to throw ret. Air Force General Merrill McPeak under the bus because of comments in ’03 about the Israel lobby. TNR’s Noam Scheiber, who describes McPeak as a loose cannon on two earlier…
The N.Y. Jewish Week is reporting that at long last progressive Zionists are forming an alternative lobby to AIPAC and will announce their plans next month. Under the working title, the “J Street” group (an inside reference to AIPAC as…
Though I dread what John Podhoretz might do to the editorial values, I just sent $79 to Commentary Magazine for a two-year renewal of my subscription. Now I’ve learned that new subscribers to Commentary are getting a free WORLD TERRORISM…
The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on Obama to fire General McPeak because he blamed American Jews for the lack of progress in the peace process… Meantime James Fallows is shocked that the Clintons are circulating the American Spectator hitjob…