I’m convinced we’re about to see a giant “Obama effect” on the culture: that win or lose, Obama’s values of global awareness, community law, and racial justice have already been inhaled by his faithful and are going to be reflected…
John Mearsheimer read the Times today and sent me the following note: Make sure you read David Margolick’s review of the new Benny Morris book in the NYT Book Review section today. It is another shocking piece, given how much…
Obama just said on Meet the Press that he’s for the Democratic nominee come November. Hillary also said she’ll fight for Obama if he wins. I think this is pillow talk. When one of them loses, they’re gonna be sore….
I just watched the great Lincoln Chafee, formerly a Rhode Island senator, now the author of Against the Tide, on C-Span talking about the war and politics at the Watson Institute last month. He made a few great points. The…
Here’s an eye-opener. My latest Commentary, for May, has as its top story not a celebration of Israel’s birth, but a denial of the Nakba: “1948, Israel, and the Palestinians–The True Story,” by Efraim Karsh, who has something of a…
Last night Chris Matthews said he was shocked by a suggestion McCain made in a speech that the Iraq war was waged for oil. Matthews commented, So this means it wasn’t about spreading democracy or defending Israel! Let’s hear this…
There are mixed reports from Fort Worth, where the Methodist conference was considering divestment from Israel. A church report says the Methodists shot down divestment. The ADL is congratulating the Methodists– The resounding defeat of five anti-Israel divestment resolutions by…
Nakba memorial week went well at Columbia. Here’s some favorable coverage in a School of International Affairs journal. Though my friend the journalist Armin Rosen (whom I admire for his doggedness) says the week failed, it was shallow and anti-Zionist…
General Fraser is George Bush’s envoy monitoring compliance–non-compliance–with the road map. Yesterday the religiously-crazed Jewish colonists of Hebron rammed the envoy’s convoy with another vehicle. There is just this sketchy report, which I gather comes from Haaretz. Can you imagine…