Having kicked from here to there, and been kicked, Doug Feith hath roosted, inevitably, at that neocon masada, the Hudson Institute.
The Obama effect is roiling the Jewish waters. Yesterday I wrote that the Jewish left cannot reemerge until progressive Jews identify the neoconservatives’ Iraq war agenda as a Jewish agenda. Joe Klein has done so already this year, in a…
Here’s an august professor of Jewish civilization, Jacques Berlinerblau, who was on tv moderating Bob Shrum and David Frum last week and today is about to conduct a forum on “the Jewish vote,” who has noticed that Jews are getting…
Here’s the Democratic side of the Obama and the Jews argument: an official Obama video about his love for my people. The good news is that it features an Obama endorsement from David Goodman, the brother of civil rights martyr…
Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…
One thing you can say about the Israel lobby theory is that it is becoming a major counter-narrative, just below the American discourse. There’s Walt and Mearsheimer’s depth charge, and Grant Smith’s expose of the origins of AIPAC, America’s Defense…
I’ve often referred to a dramatic question my old editor Peter Kaplan put to me a couple years back, slamming his office door for privacy: “How did we f— this up? Why didn’t we stop this goddamn war?” Meaning the…
One more thing about Steve Walt and Larry Summers. Three years ago Walt published a fine book called Taming American Power. The editor of Foreign Policy said it was “brilliant.” It is a mature discourse on the problems of global…
Just caught part of a forum between Shrum and Frum (Bob and David) on C-Span, at Georgetown University. Shrum’s a genius, but he’s not my subject. I study Frum carefully as I prepare my novel inspired by Bruno Malinowski: The…