A quick thought. Deregulation helped to build the hedge funds. I don’t know exactly what I’m talking about re financial issues, but I have the impression that the hedge funds took over from the investment banks as the great lakes…

Neocons sometimes reveal their conservatism as Jewish religious parochialism. Bill Kristol did so at Yivo. And here is Martin Kramer in the Jerusalem Post, dripping with righteous condescension toward Khalidi and Obama as half-made men. Sounds like Naipaul of 20…

Here is Fox News harassing Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi has never been so prominent as he is now. An author who has sought to get his important ideas and books out to the multitudes wears a muzzle. When he has nothing…

The Obama effect is roiling the Jewish waters. Yesterday I wrote that the Jewish left cannot reemerge until progressive Jews identify the neoconservatives’ Iraq war agenda as a Jewish agenda. Joe Klein has done so already this year, in a…