Typically, because I saw so much wisdom in it, I pushed Bruce Wolman to publish the short note he sent me yesterday, It’s gotten a lot of comment, as you can see. Wolman is a more considered writer than I…
Anees writes from Jerusalem (where alas, he is a second-class citizen): I usually avoid reading Thomas Friedman, but I was intrigued by the title, “In the Age of Pirates”. He does not specifically say it, but what he writes can…
The chief purpose of this website rightnow is to defenestrate the piece of propaganda that Mort Zuckerman published on the supine Huffington Post yesterday with the headline, “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” Below are 5 critiques of the…
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…
By James North “Orientalism” is much more than just prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. Edward Said, who did more than anyone to explore the ideology, explained that Orientalism can include a genuine interest in the languages and (ancient) history of…
This mock-realist piece by David Samuels on Slate arguing for an Israeli strike on Iran is outlandish in a number of ways. Most outlandish: Samuels’s assessment that it is a “fiction” that there would be a “mass public outcry” in…
Every column that Roger Cohen writes now on Iran in the Times must be celebrated. They’re so important, the tone is chastened and reasoned and olive-branch. They’re historic, in that they’re changing the American discussion. And Cohen has staked an…
From the Jerusalem Post: While refusing to go into detail about the military option to foil Iran’s nuclear program, Peres did say that Israel couldn’t carry out any strike against the Islamic republic without America. “We certainly cannot go it…
Here’s further evidence that Obama will be hawkish on Iran (and pushy about Israeli intransigence on the two-state solution). A piece in the Nation by Robert Dreyfuss on Dennis Ross’s power over Iran policy at the State Department. (This really…