Earlier this year, Jacob Heilbrunn twice used the word “cabal” in his book They Knew They Were Right, to describe the neocons at the Pentagon and in the university (I charted his cabalism here). Last year Glenn Kessler, Washington Post…
I hear all the complaining, but I’m a lefty and I’m not worried about Obama. Ronald Reagan’s conservative movement is the best historical precedent for the progressive movement that lifted Obama this year, and Reagan made a lot of gestures…
Two correspondents make points about the way the neocons pass along their political philosophy to the next generation. Says Joachim Martillo: The Jabotinskians appear to do an excellent job of socializing and indoctrinating their children. It makes a generational effort…
I’m lousy at monitoring comments, as many readers know. My excuse is I’m unpaid, and I have to make a living at the computer anyway, all day long, so it’s hard enough just to write new content for this blog…
One of the reasons the neocons are despised is that they have not been forthcoming about their true agendas. As I have pointed out, Douglas Feith completely suppresses his ultra-Zionist history in his book War and Decision. Also, he states…
I’m reading Benny Morris’s new book 1948. Pretty damn good, but flawed (but then what isn’t?). Morris uses the word “pogrom” to describe Arab riots aimed at Jews in the Arab world following the U.N. partition vote in 1947. According…
When my wife and I were driving back from the supermarket tonight I tried to tell her more about Sheldon Adelson and Doug Feith and she dropped her head to her chest in weariness and said, “Doug Feith is getting…
I’ve just gotten Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened, and my most powerful impression is, McClellan is a good man. Humility, honesty and simple moral understanding radiate from every page. The defining moment for a reader is the episode in the…
Ezra Klein reflects the growing consensus that Walt and Mearsheimer were right. It may still be that you’re not supposed to agree with Walt and Mearsheimer, but so long as you don’t mention them, you can echo their arguments and…