The Times at last supplies details and context in the French “anti-semitism” case, a pretty good piece by Steven Erlanger that regrettably has an arch tone. The leftwing cartoonist Sine was fired by a satirical sheet for publishing a cartoon…
One of the most interesting things about the neocons is that no matter what happens re Iran, the book of history has closed on them. They’ve been deemed overweening and foolish. The verdict’s in. The owl of Minerva has flown….
Here’s an interesting report from the JPost, that Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen when in Israel warned the Israelis not to pull a USS Liberty, and attempt to provoke the U.S. into taking action against Iran. The USS Liberty, a…
Jerry Haber has the grace to report that the lockdown of his blog by Blogger three days ago seems to have originated in a glitch that hit a lot of folks, and not in enemy action. Glad he’s back up…
Yesterday the River Pool at Beacon, N.Y., held its annual swim across the Hudson. (I fetched the watermelons.) 203 or so swimmers left the dock at Newburgh at 9:30 a.m. Before they left they gathered around Pete Seeger, who picked…
I keep urging an open discussion in the U.S. of rightwing Jewish ideas about an undivided Jerusalem because they are so politically important; they made Doug Feith. Here is one such expression, from Richard L. Cravatts, a Zionist academic writing…
My wife and I spent the weekend socializing in our community in the Hudson Valley. One of the things I do in this blog is try and report on the life of an intermarriage. We are both from privileged backgrounds…
The neocons have failed to understand the real danger of WMD because they have focused on state actors, including “secondary nuisances” like Iraq and Syria, when the true threat in the “war on terror” comes from freelancers. So argues Steven…
I’ve been thinking of writing a biography of Douglas Feith as a companion to his book, War and Decision, but have been stymied because I can’t find a working title. If I could just get the right one, I feel…