The National, the fascinating new paper coming out of Abu Dhabi, has a smart long piece on J Street. It includes this exchange, which only reveals how shockingly poor the American discourse is: “There is no question that J Street…
McCain’s surrogates, including Georgia boy Randy Scheunemann, are attacking Obama adviser Dan Kurtzer for visiting Syria to try and advance the Israel-Syria talks re the Golan. It’s amazing that the neocon agenda still gets such a pass in American politics….
I read my father in law your comments on his energy suggestions. He agreed generally and chimed in with Leila Abu-Saba on conservation–says that when his dryer broke down he did fine drying his clothes on the shower curtain– and…
A couple of friends have been telling me not to talk about Jewishness so openly or in the ways that I have. I’m feeling defensive about it. But one thing I’d say in my defense is that when I was…
At the risk of not expanding the boundaries of knowledge but just echoing every other American household, I want to report that my mother-in-law and wife and I just had an argument about the efficacy/necessity/rationale for the bikinis the women’s…
I’m in Martha’s Vineyard and hanging out with my father-in-law. We can look out at the horizon where local people successfully blocked a windfarm. My father-in-law and I are both peeved about that. He said he’s for Obama for a…
Another in the series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North The New Republic has a long cover article on Darfur, along with a shorter piece by editor-in-chief Martin Peretz. For Peretz, Darfur is black and white: “Even if…
WR stands for World Record, and Wide Receiver: My father-in-law, watching the Olympics, says that 30 NFL coaches right now are drooling over Usain Bolt as a potential wide receiver. Bolt’s got speed (fresh World Records in the 100 and…
American Conservative has a great post on how the late William F Buckley Jr called for the redemption of the American democratic promise thru the election of a black president, by 1980. Not for blacks, but for all of us….