I wish I could be in Chicago this Friday. A murderer’s row of intellectuals, from Noam Chomsky to Tony Judt to Neve Gordon to Akeel Bilgrami, will be speaking at a forum on academic freedom in a church at the…
I’m sure I’ve mischaracterized Steve Walt somewhat in earlier posts. The other night at Columbia, I noticed that he’s a leftwinger at heart. When Mearsheimer said that we would not have invaded Iraq if Al Gore had been elected president,…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s appearance at Columbia U. Monday night had an odd energy. I kept wondering what the event’s true character was. Ahmadinejad had come to Columbia just ten days ago; and I expected to find the two armies massed…
At an appearance at Columbia University tonight, Stephen Walt, a Harvard professor and former dean, said that he and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were slated to speak at Google headquarters recently to discuss their bestselling book The Israel…
Ahead of news reports that Israel is moving the right direction on Jerusalem, Gershom Gorenberg has penned a moving letter to Hillary Clinton, urging her to abandon her effort to capture Jewish support by calling for an “undivided Jerusalem.” Americans…
The Israeli journalist Uri Avnery shares my view that Walt and Mearsheimer’s book is historic. He compares it to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Avnery joins a group of progressive Jews, including Michael Lerner, who welcome this book as a way out…
I live in the Hudson Valley and I’m moving. My wife and I have a good country lawyer to do the closing. Yesterday I was in his office and he leafed through the paperwork. “That’s the whole McGillicuddy,” he said….
Walt and Mearsheimer spoke at Politics and Prose in Washington on September 5; C-Span aired the event tonight, over a month later. A pity the network should wait so long, on such a newsworthy event. The authors surprised me only…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s book tour comes to New York next week. Maybe some publications will finally do the feature story, Who are Walt and Mearsheimer and why did they do it? Here are my impressions. At almost 60, Mearsheimer is…