At the risk of sacrilege, I left the latest Commentary, with Hillel Halkin’s piece on the “achievement” of the settlements, in the bathroom, anticipating that during the holiday festivities I might have a few quiet moments to share with it….
Having moved to a house within earshot of the New York city NPR station WNYC, I just heard William Dobson, the managing editor of Foreign Policy, describing the magazine’s story on the top 10 stories you missed in 2007 (to…
A few days back I mentioned the Irish poet Seamus Heaney in the context of historical wrongs that refuse to be healed. I’m moving my desk in, and the yellowed clipping fell from a drawer. I’m afraid I don’t know…
Chris Matthews loves replaying the scene from his show 2 weeks back in which Hillary’s strategist, Mark Penn, brought up Obama’s cocaine use. Matthews wants to keep the story alive–he’s a junkie, remember?–so he keeps holding debates on the subject…
Maybe you saw the Times’ fabulous piece the other day on the MIT Professor who gives physics lessons on Youtube, even turning himself into a pendulum with a rope and a harness. Kids in India are learning from him. Wonderful….
In today’s Times, movie reviewer A.O. Scott says that the Muslim terrorist attacks on the west of the last few years are “blowback” to the U.S.’s involvement in the Afghan-Soviet war of the ’80s that is the setting for the…
I had a day filled with love of my own people, the Jews, yesterday. First, a fairly powerful media guy called me to apologize for having chewed me out 2 weeks back over a story I wrote for New York…
My lunch today is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a grapefruit. Can’t wait. As I made my sandwich, I faced that quandary, toasted or untoasted bread. I generally like my sandwiches on toast. It keeps them from getting…
Two days ago, Charles Ferguson, director of the Iraq-doc “No End In Sight,” was on public radio in New York discussing his work on a book that will extend his film’s findings. His conclusion, he told host Brian Lehrer, was…