Finally a mainstream organ has picked up on the Yale debate of last week that you read about here first– the Jerusalem Post, though it does so in a slightly distorted manner, saying Yale students voted to “end” the U.S.-…
All I ever needed to know about torture: A friend of mine dealt marijuana in a white working-class suburb in Westchester County. A Jamaican gang moved in on their territory. One day a Jamaican came to my friend’s boss’s door…
I see in my well-thumbed copy of Chutzpah that Dershowitz was a big sports fan as a kid (of course, he’s competitive) and “cut classes frequently to attend Brooklyn Dodgers games…” I guess I should have walked to the shelf…
The Telegraph in London reports that Sarah Palin was schooled by neoconservatives over the last two weeks, resulting in her suggestion to Charlie Gibson that Georgia was worth a military confrontation with Russia, and that she first came to the…
More than two years ago the New York Review of Books published a piece by Michael Massing that began: “Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such…
Lev Leviev, the settlements and diamond czar, is back in the crosshairs. Pressure is mounting on the British government to cancel plans it has made to rent space for its embassy in Tel Aviv from a company owned by Leviev….
“Obsession,’ the fear-mongering movie produced by a Canadian-Israeli that suggests that Islam is trying to defeat the west and it’s 1938 all over again, costs $14.95 from its website. But it is being distributed free in copies of the New…
I grew up in Baltimore, age 5-16. I moved away to college in Massachusetts, then went to Minnesota, Philly, New York. I’ve spent all of 10 days in Baltimore since ’76. I relate this prosaic itinerary in order to explain…
Yesterday Vladimir Putin said that he likes George Bush, it is the people around him he can’t stand. A king is no better than his court. This is a reference to the neoconservatives, who gave us Iraq and helped to…