My wife and I are moving, and the buyer came to our old house three days before closing as we were clearing out. A little pushy; but it was O.K. She wanted her architect to look at the place, that…
The NY Post covered the anti-settlement protests at the diamond store opening the other night as celeb gossip, noting that Susan Sarandon crossed the picket line (so much for the left’s braintrust…) to go inside. Observers have commented on the…
More than five years ago, Adam Shatz, then the Nation magazine’s literary editor, wrote an important piece about the left’s response to 9/11. One of Shatz’s targets was Dissent magazine liberals who were pushing for war in Iraq. For them,…
The ever-curious Charlie Rose deserves kudos for hosting Saad Eskander, the Iraqi national librarian, the other night. It is the kind of interchange that I as an optimist want to think can change America: an intelligent, sensitive Arab speaks from…
My side will win. Why? Because the movement is growing inside Jewish culture to call attention to the destruction of Palestinian lives. And Jewish culture is, like it or not, really important in the American discourse. Note that the Jewish…
A friend has passed along Norman Pearlstine’s piece in WSJ urging Michael Mukasey to drop the AIPAC case. Pearlstine argues that the lobbyists were performing routine business: there have been few prosecutions of government leakers for espionage in recent decades…
On TPM, the main approach that commenters have to Mukasey’s approval is to talk about AIPAC: Mukasey’s Jewishness, and the Jewishness of Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, the NY and Cal senators who gave him the votes he needed. Meantime,…
I’m trying to mint the term “religious left.” This Thursday night the religious left is having a hoe-down at the Grand Hyatt in New York, a fundraiser for the Jewish settlers who who have colonized central Hebron, the second-largest Arab…
The amount of anti-Mormonism in the culture right now is shocking. People unload on Mormonism all the time, John McCain’s mother, the New Republic…. Mitt Romney says he’s going to deal with it. Maybe give a speech. Last night on…