At the warmongering American Enterprise Institute Monday, Frederick Kagan pushed for continuing the war in Iraq by saying that things looked lousy in the Civil War here in 1862 or so, but Lincoln stuck with it notwithstanding widespread grumbling over…
New York Magazine’s profile of Katie Couric is already famous for her admission that she repeatedly slapped a staffer on the arm after he put the word “sputum” in her script a few weeks back, sputum being a word she…
Yesterday’s profile of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in the Times was an important expression of mainstream liberal opinion. It was fair and limited. The author, Roger Cohen, is agonized by the moral position of an Israeli society that has…
I spent the weekend at my wife’s family’s community in the Pennsylvania mountains, an old Quaker retreat with a distinctly elite flavor. I made a faux pas when I whipped up a fruit salad for the dinner Saturday and used…
I like Scott’s comment from yesterday, that maybe the Iraq war will do to the current Establishment what Vietnam did to the last one, break it down. Certainly this disastrous war goes way beyond George Bush and even Dick Cheney….
Alan Johnston’s homecoming is as exciting as Jill Carroll’s a year ago. BBC, CSM–they’re enlightened outlets, and both reporters have had interesting things to say about their captors. Johnston made an effort just now to distinguish between his jihadist captors…
I lately wrote a piece in which I extolled the late E. Digby Baltzell, and credited him with inventing the word WASP. Baltzell, a WASP himself, wished to hasten the day when the WASP caste no longer ruled society. He…