Robert D. Kaplan at Foreign Policy: And thus began the rehabilitation of realism, and with it another intellectual cycle. “Realist” is now a mark of respect, “neocon” a term of derision. The Vietnam analogy has vanquished that of Munich. Thomas…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
When I was young, Jewish organizations put their feet down about the use of the terms “good Jew” and “bad Jew.” It was too divisive. But that didn’t make the issue go away. I always felt like a bad Jew:…
One of the rewards of the AIPAC policy conference was the ability to watch liberal hawk Ken Pollack up close for an hour. Pollack is a key figure in our policy mess in the Middle East. A smart, goodlooking liberal…
From today’s Harvard Crimson on an appearance by General David Petraeus: Petraeus also noted the importance of reaching out to the enemy in order to help ensure peace. “You can’t kill or capture your way out of an industrial strength…
Our correspondent Felson is pessimistic. He argues that the debate on Israel/Palestine in this country isn’t fundamentally changing: I went back recently and looked at the media’s coverage of the 1982 Lebanon War and realized that, as much as we’d…
Our correspondent Felson is pessimistic. He argues that the debate on Israel/Palestine in this country isn’t fundamentally changing: I went back recently and looked at the media’s coverage of the 1982 Lebanon War and realized that, as much as we’d…
A friend picked up my earlier post questioning a Persian translation by Michael Rubin and offered character notes for the novelist who finally puts the neocons in a story: He has the conscience of a propagandist. Though his scholarly writings…