The advance word from New Hampshire leaves me elated, and feeling vindicated about my own claims over the least year or so that the left is returning as a force in American politics. I’ve said it again and again over…
Neoconservative Bill Kristol is still at it. In the latest First Things, a journal about religion, he praises the writings of Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse–who has elsewhere called for young American Jews to serve as a kind of intellectual “army”…
I had a day filled with love of my own people, the Jews, yesterday. First, a fairly powerful media guy called me to apologize for having chewed me out 2 weeks back over a story I wrote for New York…
Two days ago, Charles Ferguson, director of the Iraq-doc “No End In Sight,” was on public radio in New York discussing his work on a book that will extend his film’s findings. His conclusion, he told host Brian Lehrer, was…
The ever-curious Charlie Rose deserves kudos for hosting Saad Eskander, the Iraqi national librarian, the other night. It is the kind of interchange that I as an optimist want to think can change America: an intelligent, sensitive Arab speaks from…
I watched Sarkozy’s speech to Congress on C-Span last night and it brought tears to my eyes. That guy has some good writers. Sarkozy summoned us to what is great in America. He talked about American individuality and daring, he…
Last night ’60 Minutes’ did a piece on “Curveball,” the Iraqi scientist who fled to Germany in the late 90s and in 2002 provided “intelligence” that Saddam was preparing chemical and biological weapons. Curveball claimed that a dozen technicians had…
I don’t think there’s much question that there’s been progress in Iraq. Some markets seem to be flourishing, American deaths are down. That phantasma-gory-a of suicide bombings one day after another may even be petering out. Hallelujah. I remember a…
On his book tour, Alan Greenspan has been talking about the dangers of capitalism. Sounding the socialist, he sees a moral problem with the rising gap between rich and poor. The unprivileged will begin to question the rightness of capitalism…