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…
Harvard’s Stephen Walt, being taped by a midshipman The reason I went to the Naval War College was to hear Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of the controversial paper on the Israel lobby, address an audience of officers and…
During the (thrilling) Tunisia-Saudi Arabia match, the cameramen picked out some (hot) uncovered chicks in the stands pulling for the team from the country that gave us (let us not forget) Mohammed Atta.
The piling up of goals at the World Cup—Spain!—clarifies the pattern of scoring pointed to before here. The revised totals, as of this morning: Goals in first “quarter” (22.5 minutes): 9 Second quarter: 10 Third quarter: 3 Fourth: 12 This…
Chuck, commenting on my report on Mearsheimer at the Naval War College, points out that West Point lately hosted Noam Chomsky.
If anyone asks you why this is a great country, tell them this story. Yesterday the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, opened its annual conference on international strategy with a speech from the Navy Secretary in a vast…
I said I’d follow up on the report that Coalition forces in Iraq can’t watch the World Cup on TV. My friend Maria sent me this exchange with her brother in Baghdad: I asked about his coalition friends, if they’d…
In his otherwise-stinging postmortem of the U.S. team’s loss to the Czechs in the opening round of the World Cup, George Vecsey did the unpardonable in yesterday’s Times: “…The Czechs played the way they can; the Americans reverted halfway back…