Pierpaolo Barbieri has a funny lead in his review of a Genet play: Walking into Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre’s “The Maids,” I mentioned to the usher that some problems, in addition to the oppressive heat, had made my day heavy. When…
In yesterday’s New Haven Register, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a leading management professor at Yale, shows how disaffection with Lieberman isn’t some narrow obsession, as David Brooks would have it, but goes to the heart of the misconduct of our foreign policy:…
An article in this week’s Observer about the unanimity among New York politicians in supporting Israel’s bombing of Lebanon (surprise) contains an important statement by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (who was a brave opponent of the Iraq war): [Nadler] equated support…
Reporting on Lamont-Lieberman, the JTA gets at the crucial question of Jewish money in the race: “Jewish fund-raisers canvassed by JTA said they favored Lieberman — even those who profoundly disagree with him on Iraq.” Amazingly, even Steve Grossman, a…
Tonight on the PBS NewsHour (yes I lead a boring life), Zbigniew Brzezinski made a brilliant analogy. He said that when the Carter Administration came to power, Brzezinski, national security adviser, dealt with the new Likud government and its Prime…
From The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick (1999): “In the Jewish tradition, some memories are very long lasting… Some memories, once functional, become dysfunctional. The concluding chapters of the Book of Esther tell of the queen’s soliciting permission…
I am a Yankee hater (I grew up in Baltimore). My friend Dan Swanson is also a Yankee-hater, of the Chicago White Sox variety. I polled him on his feelings following the Yankees sweep of the world champions this past…
The Forward has some good reporting on the antiwar insurgent’s position re vis-a-vis Lebanon. And Jonathan Tasini’s, too, the man challenging Hillary Clinton.
Commenter Rowan Berkeley has accused me of “Jewish Orientalism.” It’s not the first time; my friend Dan Swanson (author James North) has accused me of orientalism on a number of occasions. What do I cop to: I think there’s a…