Today I announced I wasn’t going to write about my wife. My wife and I just watched ABC News with Charlie Gibson teasing his interview with Sarah Palin. My wife’s smart about people. She said, “Slam dunk.” She said Palin…
I just caught about 30 minutes of the Progressive Policy Institute’s panel today on national security issues facing the next president. “So this is what progressives have to say,” the head fred progressive said when it was done, Will Marshall….
I heard Charlie Gibson’s commencement address at the elite New York high school, the Dalton School, last June. The tone was: aw shucks but I went to Princeton; I’m just an ordinary guy, I did poorly in economics, but I’m…
We all watched Sarkozy endorsing Obama a few weeks back. Today BBC radio did a piece on Sarkozy’s views on faith, that included the statement that he is “culturally Catholic, has Jewish roots, and is keenly interested in Islam.” I.e.,…
Brit Antony Lerman explaining why those who are for a one-state solution are not necessarily anti-semites or self-haters or mutant six-toed spotted lizards.
The internet is going to blow our minds even more than the printing press blew my daddy’s. This is the personal blog of Lawrence R. Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. He has taken on Michael Mukasey’s…
A few words about the state of this blog. I’m trying to depersonalize it and professionalize it. I’m going to stop doing personal stuff, like about my wife or sexuality (maybe do that in my own indulgent blog some day…
The great Bradley Burston in Haaretz compares the two parties’ positions on Israel/Palestine. Yes I know the Dems also say that Jerusalem must remain accessible to all people. But the word undivided is very close to the pander that Obama…
Neoconservatism isn’t a strain in Jewish life? Here are the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Obama ads, surely bearing the stamp of Sheldon Adelson and Ari Fleischer and all the other Land of Israel bunnies, suggesting that Obama is a fearful man…