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…
Columbia student Anna Kelner, writing on America’s blog: On Monday, when Columbia University granted tenure to Joseph Massad — the professor of Modern Arab politics whose alleged intimidation of pro-Israeli students likely doomed his first tenure bid in 2005 –…
A friend writes: The incident you reported, of the Israelis attacking and boarding the Spirit of Humanity en route to Gaza, carries a strangely powerful resonance against the incident of the ship Exodus 1947–the British refusal of refugees on that…
A couple months back at the 92d Street Y, someone on a panel said that Bernie Madoff could have happened to any community. I mocked the comment at the time because it was willful indifference (on the part of a…
I frequently criticize the Washington Post editorial page here for providing a night refuge (as Herzl said of Uganda) for the neoconservatives as they flee the progressive pogroms. Well yesterday the Post distinguished itself head-and-shoulders with a superb op-ed by…
Fat’s in the fire. Michael Goldfarb: just in case you think [Andrew] Sullivan might not necessarily be using the term neocon as a substitute for Zionist, he helpfully clears up any confusion by referring to the paper’s op-ed page as…