Rowan Berkeley has posted the Rev. Wright speech at the Detroit NAACP last weekend and challenged people to listen to what the man is saying. I imagine I will some day, and probably agree with a lot of what Wright…
Scott McConnell, editor of the American Conserative, saw Obama at a Pennsylvania rally, and was charmed: “Wall Street is teetering on the brink of nobody knows what,” [Obama] told the crowd, a more felicitous line than the standard political pose…
Lila Abu-Lughod, the Palestinian-American professor of anthropology at Columbia whose graceful and perfect telling of her father’s exile and return I found so stunning the other night, amended her comment to me that her book Nakba has not been reviewed….
I went to a hip party in New York tonight. Well hip to me anyway, I live in the sticks. People were talking about Obama. To wit: “Who do you think Obama’s favorite character on The Wire is?… Omar, the…
David Remnick has a pretty-damn-good piece in the New Yorker on Benny Morris’s new book, concluding, “Next month, the Israelis mark the sixtieth anniversary of their independence, the Palestinians the sixtieth anniversary of al-nakba, the catastrophe.” So Nakba recognition has…
Obama is getting closer by the day. And yet the Democratic Party is split. Many Hillary supporters will turn to McCain in the fall if Obama’s the nominee–just as many Obama supporters will vote for McCain if Hillary manages to…