Bernard-Henri Levy on Huffington Post: For the honor and the salvation of those still in Rwanda and Darfur, in solidarity with the homosexuals hanged in Tehran or imprisoned in Cuba, for the love of newlyweds burned alive in Afghanistan or…
By James North Several hundred people packed into the Cowin Auditorium at Columbia’s Teachers College last night, and nearly all of them stayed more than 2 hours for an intriguing debate about what is actually happening in Darfur and what…
From the Angry Arab, As’ad AbuKhalil: A decent American reader wrote me expressing his “resentment and disapproval” toward the my decision to post a hate mail that I have received from an American reader. I should say clearly that most…
Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi’s book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book’s sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen’s superb endorsement in the…
David Bromwich has a fabulous post on ways that aristocracy perpetuates itself–Larry Summers’s payday. And he offers this comment on James North’s piece on Mahmood Mamdani’s Darfur book, posted here yesterday: The report confirms a suspicion about the way the…
A well-informed friend of this site objected to the post we put up yesterday, called “Gazans beg for Shalit’s release. Hamas official says No,” which was sharply critical of Hamas’s human-rights conduct in Gaza. The original post was written by…
James North writes: I remember Mahmood Mamdani from 35 years ago, when he was the most dynamic leader of the newly-organized union of graduate students at Harvard. Today he is a distinguished professor at Columbia, one of our most original…
Last night I went to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the Brooklyn Reform synagogue, Beth Elohim. A gorgeous temple, and before giving Khalidi the microphone at the altar, Rabbi Andy Bachman went down the list of groups that had sponsored…
The AP from Jerusalem: two versions of the official Netanyahu cabinet photo were released. One is photoshopped to remove the two women in the cabinet, to placate the Orthodox objections to photographing women.