A year ago Stephen Walt was invited by University of Montana History Chairman Richard Drake to deliver the school’s annual Presidential lecture in Helena. Drake writes that he experienced a fusillade of angry mail — from other professors. “I have…
It’s often pointed out that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer used to work for AIPAC. In a highly-favorable review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel lobby, former Senator James Abourezk relates the following anecdote: My real Middle East education began…
We’re beginning to see the Walt and Mearsheimer effect. Not in coverage of their book or celebration of their ideas in the mainstream. No, that is a ways off. Actually we are seeing their effect in a far more pervasive…
The Christian Science Monitor has published a bold piece by John Whitbeck, who has advised the Palestinians, calling for a binational state in historic Palestine, and an end to Zionism. Traumatized by the Holocaust and perceived insecurity as a Jewish…
Last night on ‘Hardball,’ Chris Matthews welcomed Va. Congressman Jim Moran on to talk about Iraq policy. Moran was in the headlines last week for blaming the war on an Israel lobby. The devilish Matthews was clearly pleased to be…
Academic-freedom advocates are justly up in arms over the fact that UC-Irvine rescinded– on political grounds–an agreement it had made with Duke Professor Erwin Chemerinsky to become the first dean of its new law school. Chemerinsky, whom the LA Times…
The last refuge of pro-Iraq-war neolefties is the theory promoted by Charles Ferguson and George Packer in ‘No End in Sight’ that everything would have gone great in Iraq if we’d just done the invasion right, and, notably, if we’d…
Alissa Rubin of the Times had a fabulous piece of reporting from Baghdad yesterday that included the following: “The withdrawal of the occupation forces is a must because they have caused the destruction of Iraq, they committed massacres against the…
There are two ways to know a prophet. One is that every word he speaks brings moral clarity to a perplexing issue. The second is that he is published in the London Review of Books, not in the States. Today…