This week’s New Republic has a profile of Chuck Hagel written in a regretful tone by the usually-emulable John Judis saying that Hagel has become “unmoored” by the Iraq war. It epitomizes a leading attitude among liberals: Iraq was a…
Everyone is talking about Michael Chabon’s new novel, and good for him, he’s good. But let’s be clear, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a fantasy set in Alaska. It’s not about the here and now. Chabon began in a different…
A year ago I turned on C-SPAN and found myself transfixed for an hour by Roscoe Bartlett, the octogenarian congressman/engineer from Western Maryland who has made a cause out of lecturing Americans about their dependence on petroleum. Well it happened…
Yesterday I was hiking through the woods moving a little too fast and almost stepped on a black snake, about 5 feet long, traveling on its own through the woods in the opposite direction. I’m fascinated by snakes and stopped…
Keith Olbermann last night issued another of his signature condemnations of the political establishment, where he addresses Bush witheringly as “Sir.” Last night he said the Democrats are not following the mandate of the people from last November, to get…
A little while ago I blogged about Norman Podhoretz’s statement in 1979 that neoconservatism arose in part out of a Jewish concern that the Democratic Party wanted to scale back the military, and this represented a direct threat to Israel’s…
Three months ago Commentary Magazine called Jimmy Carter “our worst ex-president” (because of his position on Israel, of course). Now Carter is calling Bush “our worst president ever,” and the press is attacking him for violating some unspoken ethic of…
The latest Jewish Currents traces the history of the blackmail “self-hating Jew” to describe Jews who have not drunk the Israel koolaid. It quotes Noam Chomsky on the subject: Chomsky attributes the promiscuous use of the accusation of Jewish self-hatred…
Did George Tenet’s threat to resign cause Clinton to scuttle deal with Israel to release imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard in ’98? Did Tenet lie about his role? And does Tenet secretly share Walt and Mearsheimer’s view that the Israel lobby…