David Bromwich has a fabulous post on ways that aristocracy perpetuates itself–Larry Summers’s payday. And he offers this comment on James North’s piece on Mahmood Mamdani’s Darfur book, posted here yesterday: The report confirms a suspicion about the way the…
Yesterday David Bromwich published a piece on Huffpo memorializing Rachel Corrie in the best way, by using her story to critique the media and the American government and ultimately to the fields of political philosophy and Jewish and American identity….
David Bromwich comments on Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent on the two-state solution: What must be done on both sides has been clear for a long time. Many Israeli commentators–among them Uri Avnery–have been saying it. Palestinians (both Fatah and…
David Bromwich, who lectured on Lincoln’s legacy last week in Colorado, responds to a post by Phil Weiss on Lincoln’s failed 1849 effort to get a presidential appointment, commissioner of the Land Office: Why do people grasp at dirty straws…
David Bromwich writes: Annals of Broken Journalism: At 10:25 this morning (EST) the MSNBC News anchor Alex Witt broadcast a segment entitled “Terrorists in Your Backyard?” The subject was Guantanamo. The premise: can we afford to close it? The guest…
LRB has a powerful collection of contributors condemning the slaughter. Excerpts: Yitzhak Laor: Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive it back into pre-modern groupings…