If you go to the Foreign Policy website, you see the new magazine cover with the giant question: “Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?” This is of course a response to Walt & Mearsheimer, who are given the…
The Slate party last Thursday night in the marble hall of the New York Public Library was not at all tinselly Till Donny Graham Who served in Nam Toasted the great Kinsley
A few years back I wrote a tough piece for the Times Magazine about a Blake Edwards’ show on Broadway called Victor/Victoria. Edwards had let me hang out with the production as long as I wanted. When I wrote the…
Two weeks back, Paul Krugman got off a brilliant stroke in the Times, when he cited that “peculiar rule, which still prevails in Washington, that you have to have been wrong about Iraq to be considered credible on national security.”…
Will someone write an article about what language(s) are being used at the World Cup? By the announcers? The referees? The players? English, Esperanto, German, I need to know.
In order to rationalize watching just about every game of the World Cup, I’ve been painting woodwork while I watch. Now that I’m in the bathroom, I have to move TVs around, and to do that I have had to…
The Times today features a top of the front-page story on the making of soccer players in Brazil, from the slums of Rio”the unpaved road to excellence.” Combine this with Henry Kissinger’s critique that American players are too suburban and…
Afraid of the leftwing insurgency against Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic Party, the pro-Israel lobby is rallying to the Senator’s side, so reports the Forward. This is further evidence for my political hobbyhorse: That the Israel lobby is one…
The first two knock-out round games show everything that’s wrong with soccer: 1. Trench Warfare. Almost all the scoring was early, four out of five goals in the first twenty minutes or so. The next two and a half hours…