Long piece by Clark Hoyt, the NYT public editor, on the sociology of the marriage announcements in the New York Times talks about class issues and bloodlines, and same-sex marriages, and the meritocracy– When bloodlines are mentioned, they tend to…
Helena Cobban asked in an email yesterday– apropos of the report that Netanyahu has called powerful Jewish aides to Obama “self-hating Jews”–which is worse: to be called an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew? Which calumny is more effective in preventing…
Joseph Dana has an interesting take on the report in Haaretz that Netanyahu has described Barack Obama’s top advisers, Jews Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, as self-hating Jews: There is a feeling among certain intellectuals and statesman in Israel that…
If you want to understand the liberal media’s behavior on Israel/Palestine, this is an important post. In it, a powerful editor admits that his views of the conflict are far more left than you’d ever know from his broadcast. He…
The conversation is obviously changing in the U.S. But I missed this one. It happened at Buchenwald a month ago, Brokaw asked Obama the question. My assiduous coreligionists at CAMERA got it. They’re now trying to give Brokaw a spanking,…
It’s taken me a while to unpack my trip to Gaza last month. Part of this is technical (I only just learned to upload videos to Youtube) but mostly it is emotional. I have a lot to sort out. Today…
The latest Commentary has a great piece by Joseph Epstein about a guy I’d never heard of, Isaac Rosenfeld, a critic/writer in the New York Intellectual set who was supposed to be Saul Bellow’s peer as a talent and who…
From a Harvard alumni mailing seeking “demographic” information for survey: Which income range most clearly represents the total annual income of your household? ___$0-$49,999 ___$50,000-$99,999 ___$100,000-$249,999 ___$250,000-$499,999 ___$500,000-$749,999 ____$750,000-$999,9999 ___$1,000,000-$2,499,999 ____$2,500,000-$4,999,999 ___$5,000,000+ Which range most clearly represents the total net…
Hardworking Nathan Guttman gets the first interview with Hawaiian-beshirted Larry Franklin, the former Defense department analyst who was the only man to go down in the investigation of AIPAC lobbyists Rosen and Weissman: His superiors at the time were both…