A few more reasons not to pull for the U.S. against Italy tomorrow: 10. The players reportedly don’t know what their roles are, why should the fans? 11. Soccer moms: The game still has an entitled, suburban feel here, and…
The Forward (in a fine piece of reporting on a conference on the future of the Jewish people arranged by a leading Jerusalem thinktank, to which no women were invited) quotes feminist leader Shifra Bronznick, and on third reference to…
The item I did on John Mearsheimer’s talk at the Naval War College in which he likened Iraq to The Plague has generated a great deal of comment, all favorable. Frankly, I’m honored to have gotten his words out to…
One thing the Observer left out of its soccer piece yesterday was internationalism. Soccer doesn’t just license Anglophilia; if you’re a lefty, it’s a giant third world bath. You get to pull for Africans. Thus the Cinderella of the 2006…
The AP reports that Bill Clinton made $7.5 million last year in speeches. I’ve touched on Clinton’s post-presidential career before. Here is a related criticism, coming from neocon David Frum, in his book The Right Man, in the context of…
I do my best to keep abreast of a booming field in literary production, Spam bylines. Here are the latest entries for the next Humberto Long Award for Nom-de-Spam: Hollis Champion Maureen Fink Gordon Dominguez Zachary Holmes Megan Woodard
Commenter Miriam Reik points out a significant hole in my reporting from Newport yesterday: I wish Weiss had reported the answer given to the Lt. Commander’s question about “how the Palestinians can combat the Israelis’ foreign influence in the United…
Dr. Mearsheimer In his speech at the University of Chicago commencement last weekend, Mayor Bloomberg did a most honorable thing, and, in attacking political correctness, praised the University for its support of John Mearsheimer. Here’s the quote: From the University’s…
Lizzy Ratner has a smart funny piece in the new Observer about Jews who like soccer. Only the timing hurts: the best game today is Germany vs. Poland. I have to say it makes my sportsloving scrotum rather shy and…