An opponent of the draft, Greg Mankiw, a former Bush economics brain, now a professor of law at Harvard, says that both Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith were against the draft, and approvingly quotes a recent WSJ piece: [T]here…
I’m lousy at monitoring comments, as many readers know. My excuse is I’m unpaid, and I have to make a living at the computer anyway, all day long, so it’s hard enough just to write new content for this blog…
One of the reasons the neocons are despised is that they have not been forthcoming about their true agendas. As I have pointed out, Douglas Feith completely suppresses his ultra-Zionist history in his book War and Decision. Also, he states…
When my wife and I were driving back from the supermarket tonight I tried to tell her more about Sheldon Adelson and Doug Feith and she dropped her head to her chest in weariness and said, “Doug Feith is getting…
I’ve just gotten Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened, and my most powerful impression is, McClellan is a good man. Humility, honesty and simple moral understanding radiate from every page. The defining moment for a reader is the episode in the…
Been meaning to mention this. I had the privilege, three weeks ago, of attending the Dalton School commencement at Lincoln Center. Dalton is an elite private high school in New York City. Maybe the most elite. Michael Steinhardt sent his…
I have some limited sympathy for Doug Feith as a guy who’s been abruptly marginalized; it’s hard to imagine a more precipitous farewell. It reminds me of seeing former Cheney aide David Wurmser speaking at a New York law firm…
The Washington Independent runs a story by James Risen of the New York Times that makes a half-hearted effort to rehabilitate Douglas Feith. Feith says the piece was killed by the Times.The Washington Independent calls the story “The Return of…
My crowd is buzzing over Connie Bruck’s profile of Sheldon Adelson in The New Yorker. I have pressed for just such coverage of the U.S.’s third-richest man, and birthright-nut, for months. I notice that the Israel angle is right up…