Another dispatch on “How to Think About Darfur,” by James North: Lopez Lomong, who was chosen by his Olympic teammates to carry the American flag at the opening ceremonies, is an extraordinary young man. He is one of the “Lost…
I started to write that it’s a pity that Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s obituary in the Times yesterday was written by a Jew, but that sort of cheap prejudice defies Darwish’s spirit. The poet would expect that anyone with the…
Yesterday I wrote about going to an Irish wake. Jack Ross offered his own experience: “Four years ago when my grandmother died I had a friend visiting from San Francisco. When I tried to explain shiva to him (notably without…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas re the Israel lobby are increasingly becoming the conventional wisdom. Some day the culture will look back on the vituperation and obloquy of last year as so much sputtering. A sign of the restoration: The Harvard…
Steve Sailer is on to the same issue I am, the importance of Jewish affinities, networks, and has this to say re Georgia: [I]t is clear, that some Israelis have strong interests in Georgia, and those Israelis have lots of…
Let it be noted that the latest J. Crew catalog, the epitome of the Waspatocracy, well not the epitome, maybe the decline of it, the kitschification of it, help me Camille Paglia, features Russ & Daughters, the great old herring…
Antiwar.com has a piece called “America’s Israeli-occupied media,” by Philip Giraldi, a writer for the American Conservative. This strikes me as a milestone: because this kind of statement has now lost its incendiary lunatic-fringe tonalities, it is a commonplace. Joe…
If you want to understand the price of Zionism in the U.S., study the late A.J. Granoff of Kansas City. Granoff was born in Kiev in 1896. He came to the United States when he was 8, surely because his…
This is the fifth in a series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North: The experts agree: the worst years in Darfur for mass killing were back in 2003-04. At that time, two guerrilla groups of Darfuris had formed:…