There was a year or two that I wanted one, and didn’t spring for it, and a good thing too. Now they’re everywhere. This one stared me down in my room at the Wyndham Hotel chain this weekend. Didn’t buy…
The reason I was at the Wyndham, I was attending the Andover commencement (my wife’s niece). There was something thrilling about it, something else crushing. The thrilling thing is that diversity is today a bold insurmountable fact of elite culture….
Former CIA analyst Robert Baer (author of a new novel, and of See No Evil, which became the film Syriana) said on the Charlie Rose show the other night what so many of us believe: Iraq is a total failure,…
Finally someone has done the article I wanted to read long ago: What is Harvard’s reaction to the Mearsheimer-Walt paper on the Israel lobby (which was half-produced on the shores of the Charles, where co-author Walt was a dean). The…
John Podhoretz has now sent me a note to explain his first email to me: Good Lord, Weiss, I was making fun of your preposterous and hysterical neocon baiting. I presumed you would see my name at the top of…
A couple days ago I did my most successful item, counting by serious comments: about the vanishing progressive Jewish presence in public life, from my viewpoint as an assimilating Jew. Later that day I opened my email to discover a…
Someone had run over this black snake on a woods road. Some people like doing that kind of thing. My dog wasn’t wild about having his picture taken with it. This is as close as he would sit. He didn’t…
Under Terry Gross’s fine questioning on Fresh Air today, Hans Blix pointed out that the U.N.’s reports on WMD in Iraq proved to be much more accurate than all the national reports on the same question, from the U.S. and…
The My Lai massacre, of hundreds of civilians, took place in March 1968 and didn’t break the surface for a year and a half: November 1969. This time it’s only dozens dead and we only had to wait four months…