Top seven reasons why John Edwards will be the Democratic nominee: 1. Candidacies flare and die like roman candles. Edwards hasn’t had his flare, Obama’s will soon die down. It was right about now that Kerry began to reemerge in…
In a month, Jacob Heilbrunn’s book on the neoconservatives, They Knew They Were Right, will be published by Doubleday. I’m reviewing it for the American Conservative, and Doubleday gave me permission to quote the following. One of Heilbrunn’s scores is…
The Jewish Question tormented Europe for centuries. How do emerging nations deal with a state-within-a-state, a people who have been ghettoized and have a corporate sense of themselves as distinct? Jewish difference and exceptionalism (Jewish “genius,” as Commentary puts it)…
Robert Keohane, the international-relations scholar who debated Walt and Mearsheimer at Princeton Monday night, has supplied a copy of his opening comments to the assiduous James Morris, who passed them on to me. Two excerpts: “The charge of anti-Semitism is…
Adalah-New York was understandably upset that Susan Sarandon went shopping at the grand opening of Leviev, the jewelry store owned by a Russian/Israeli Jew who has backed the settlements in the West Bank. Adalah wrote her a letter, asking her…
I’m renovating a house and yesterday at long last I went to pick up the countertop for the kitchen island. It was a difficult job, a top and two sides, formed together. In August, the guy at Lowe’s who orders…
The Princetonian has an OK piece on last night’s debate at the school featuring Walt and Mearsheimer. How great that Princeton hosted the scholars, how great that it engaged their ideas. (I say OK piece because the Princetonian chose to…
Haaretz reports that half of Europeans believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country. Abe Foxman says this shows the rise of traditional anti-semitic stereotype, including the belief that Jews control U.S. foreign policy. Similar…
As the Times indicated the other day in its annual piece on mixed-religion couples, some people get agonized about intermarriage. I suppose I’ve been myself or why would I be so hung up on Jewish identity? My gentile wife is…