David Bromwich offers a historical take on progressive economic values on Huffpo: when Obama evokes a society in which you begin by working for someone else, pass on to work as your own boss, and end by employing others, he…
One more thing about Steve Walt and Larry Summers. Three years ago Walt published a fine book called Taming American Power. The editor of Foreign Policy said it was “brilliant.” It is a mature discourse on the problems of global…
Just caught part of a forum between Shrum and Frum (Bob and David) on C-Span, at Georgetown University. Shrum’s a genius, but he’s not my subject. I study Frum carefully as I prepare my novel inspired by Bruno Malinowski: The…
I liked Eliot Spitzer. He’s real smart, he knows Wall Street, he went after some parts of Wall Street. I like David Paterson but I’ve never been that impressed by his intelligence. Innocent questions: Could Spitzer, who was brought down…
Former Air Force captain John Mearsheimer is tough. The co-author of The Israel Lobby could give a s–t that he gets disinvited from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and gets disbarred from his former haunt, the New York Times,…
Our journalism is broken. Jim Lobe of IPS and now Ali Gharib of Huffpo are saying that McCain will stall the peace process, as George Bush did. Per Lobe’s report on Max Boot’s statement to WINEP: “the Republican candidate, if…
Daniel Pipes is some kind of visiting fellow at Stanford U’s Hoover Institution. Here he argues that Barack Obama was raised Muslim and has ties to extremist Islamists (in which category Pipes seems to includ CAIR of all places) and…
From Inter Press: Eighteen-year-old Juliet Al-Tork, accepted in Jordan’s Al-Yarmouk University for a translations course, is among the hundreds not being allowed by Israel to leave. “All young people are given the chance to study, and I am not.” “Israel…
Jack Ross on my view that Colin Powell is deep down inside an Arabist: Though I haven’t checked the Commentary blog yet, I too have been surprised to see that the Republican attacks on Powell have not been neocon red…