Having covered former Iran hostage Michael Metrinko’s homecoming to Pennsylvania 25 years ago, I remember the mixture of humiliation and rage that proceeded from that long nightmare. The British hostage crisis has been a Broadway farce by comparison. The sailors…

The other night at Columbia, student groups including Lionpac, Columbia’s version of Aipac (the Israel lobby), held a panel on “What to do about Iran?” They invited three experts. One was a fullblown neoconservative, Herbert London, the ruddy-faced former mayoral…