My most successful item on this blog, to judge from comments, was called Harvard’s Plagiarism Scandal, and was successful for two reasons, because I brought up issues of racism in the Kaavya Visnawathan case, and because Roger Ailes, the political…
Last night’s Sopranos offered some indication of how things will be resolved in this, the last season: mercilessly. A lot of us discovered hope in the gay captain Vito’s exile to New Hampshire. He was being redeemed by his homosexuality…
One of the planners of the Iraq war, Michael Rubin, has written a piece for National Review about a March trip to Iceland during which demonstrators assailed him for “war crimes.” Rubin is upset about this, saying that it reflects…
I know I’m supposed to like Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He’s a free spirit. He’s producing feel-good movies, like Akeelah and the Bee and Good Night, and Good Luck. He has an interesting blog that is sometimes deadon: 99pct…
Now that the President’s approval has finally broken the 30 percent floor (why did it take so long?), wouldn’t it be fairer to everyone to switch over to raw numbers? It might make the President feel better if today’s news…
The appropriately-named FactChequer blasts me for failing to mention the foundations and not-for-profits when talking about the left’s power yesterday. You look at academia, where people are paid to sit around and jaw, and say that all the Left does…
I met the late Abe Rosenthal once and spent a couple of hours with him, long enough to experience his famous temper. He had alot of rage inside him, which the fly-by psych in me would pinpoint to a tortuous…
One of the chapters left out of yesterday’s Times obit of Rosenthal was his treatment of gay staff members when he was managing editor and executive editor. Gay people say he was oppressive. “It was the presumption of everyone at…
Lately I fingered Anonymous as Joe Wilson. Anonymous promptly responded: I posted as anonymous, and I’m not Joe Wilson. I just thought your piece was unkind and unnecessary. Thank you for being open minded and reading Ambassador Wilson’s book. I…