The Boston Globe put the Brandeis censorship on its front page today (and did a better job than I did of writing it up!).
In the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz today, NYU Professor Tony Judt argues that the publication of the now-famous essay on the Israel lobby may signal a real change in American foreign policy, away from our “umbilical” relationship to Israel. The fact…
The Harvard Independent is now calling the Kaavya Visnawathan story Kaavya-gate. That of course is their prerogative. Heck, they’re college students. But the Times, after first imbibing the Kaavya story hook, line and stinker, is now chasing the bloggers. The…
Dennis Nealon, a spokesman for Brandeis, tells me the school did take down the exhibit. “The university had to make a decision. We were getting complaints from people that the exhibit was one-dimensional. There was no other context… It was…
An exhibit of 17 paintings done by Palestinian children that was mounted in a library at Brandeis University last week was taken down over the weekend by the Brandeis administration. That’s from Lior Halperin, a 27-year-old Israeli sophomore at Brandeis,…
Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates. As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A’s when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to…
At my grocery store you see all these guys in their 50s—including, sadly, moi— buying pomegranate juice because it is supposed to prevent cancer by taking care of all the free radicals, or the oxidants. Something like that. I’m not…
The Colbert Report may be the best show on television, but when 60 Minutes flacked the show last night it abandoned its responsibility and didn’t quiz Colbert about his politics. Morley Safer just chuckled along with Colbert from start to…