The hardest thing for me to write in the last couple weeks was a bit I did on Jewish superiority. I was pleased to see I got some positive comments, including this from JooToo: I’d be interested to hear your…
Florida Rabbi Bruce Warshal takes on Jewish neocons in the St. Louis Jewish Light, in an article accepting the truth of much of Mearsheimer-Walt’s Israel lobby paper. Here’s the money quote: 400 rabbis, including myself, signed a letter sponsored by…
Oy. Did I really write that The Times’ Dan Barry was blaming David Blaine for murders in the outer boroughs? Unh, yes. Barry responded to that and my criticism of the Times coverage of David Blaine: first, the times wrote…
I’m told this is an artichoke; we shall seeA close friend has told me that I am watering down my brand (such as it is), and neurotically Borscht-belting attention from my core concerns—of our country’s international crisis and journalistic cowardliness…
In a speech about his book 31 Days that he gave last month at the Ford Library (and C-Span broadcasted yesterday), Barry Werth made the interesting point that in 1974, when Rumsfeld and Cheney were making their first inroads at…
I heard the Yankee fans booing Randy Johnson yesterday, something The Times today did not mention. It makes you wonder whether the combination of New York’s unique fanbase (a lot of jerks), the in-your-face media, and Johnson’s own doubts about…
My most successful item on this blog, to judge from comments, was called Harvard’s Plagiarism Scandal, and was successful for two reasons, because I brought up issues of racism in the Kaavya Visnawathan case, and because Roger Ailes, the political…
Last night’s Sopranos offered some indication of how things will be resolved in this, the last season: mercilessly. A lot of us discovered hope in the gay captain Vito’s exile to New Hampshire. He was being redeemed by his homosexuality…
One of the planners of the Iraq war, Michael Rubin, has written a piece for National Review about a March trip to Iceland during which demonstrators assailed him for “war crimes.” Rubin is upset about this, saying that it reflects…