A month back I went to a highly emotional talk at Columbia University Hillel that Iâve been meaning to blog about because it shows how much the discourse on Israel/Palestine is changing. Mine is a report from a liberal university,…
I wrote about U.N. Ambassador-to-be Zalmay Khalilzad’s ideological peregrinations before. From radical to neocon. Well, turns out there was a stop in Realism. Ten years ago, Khalilzad deplored the Israel lobby’s role in our foreign policy. In a 1997 paper…
For me there’s just one thing to say about Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s astonishing, it’s everything a novel could be. I keep it near my desk and can reread that opening chapter a zillion times and never get tired…
Don Imus is a racist. Much as I love him, I can see it in him. And yes, we’re all racists; but Imus stepped in it bad, and it will be fascinating and good to see him reform. I wish…
Speaking to VP Cheney and others at American Enterprise Institute the other night, Bernard Lewis did what he does best: warns that we are involved in the Crusades with jihadists whether we like it or not. Masking hysteria in (impressive)…
The fourth round of the Masters starts in an hour or so and Tiger is right where he wants to be, a stroke off the lead. Meantime Obama is stalking Hillary in the money race. The prominence of these two…
There have been a lot of comments on my Michael Walzer post. I want to deal with one right off. Realistic Dove has taken me on, saying that the “far left” has a problem with Jewish identity, and accusing me…
Last night in an Iraq panel at Barnard arranged by the Working Families Party, Rep. Jerrold Nadler said that WMD was merely an “excuse” for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq. The real reason was “simple” and “psychological.” I could…
Having covered former Iran hostage Michael Metrinko’s homecoming to Pennsylvania 25 years ago, I remember the mixture of humiliation and rage that proceeded from that long nightmare. The British hostage crisis has been a Broadway farce by comparison. The sailors…