On Charlie Rose (rebroadcast yesterday), oilman-turned-hedgefunder Boone Pickens added his voice to the Roscoe Bartlett camp, saying we have passed the peak of oil production and will be facing shortages. The optimistic Pickens spoke of “rough times” with $100-a-barrel oil,…
More evidence that the neocon moment is over. David Schenker has lately left his post as “the Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestinian affairs adviser in the office of the secretary of defense” (to becomeÂof courseÂa senior fellow in Arab politics…
Montgomerie, when sunny I found yesterday’s Times story on the collapse of the formerly-surly Colin Montgomerie at the U.S. Open amusing. I’d watched the end of the Open with a friend who was leaping up out of his armchair with…
At the end of an interview with Der Spiegel published last week, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said, “Now I have a question.” Haniya: In addition to being prime minister, I am also the Minister of Youth and Sports. I…
Playwright Zellnik, and actor Glenn Fleshler A couple weeks back a guy named David Zellnik emailed me, asking me to come see a reading of his play: “Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and Dreams of Theodor Herzl.” What…
A couple weeks back I said that no American newspaper would print a piece by the great Henry Siegman, the former American Jewish Congress president who has become outspoken on the need for Israel to deal fairly with the Palestinians….
More on the real Iraq: “Riverbend,” the electifying and poetical blogger in Baghdad, offers the desolating tale of a sportloving shopowner who displayed the Brazilian flag in his window till the party of Muqtada al-Sadr, which is part of the…