I just caught about 30 minutes of the Progressive Policy Institute’s panel today on national security issues facing the next president. “So this is what progressives have to say,” the head fred progressive said when it was done, Will Marshall….
The internet is going to blow our minds even more than the printing press blew my daddy’s. This is the personal blog of Lawrence R. Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. He has taken on Michael Mukasey’s…
Neoconservatism isn’t a strain in Jewish life? Here are the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Obama ads, surely bearing the stamp of Sheldon Adelson and Ari Fleischer and all the other Land of Israel bunnies, suggesting that Obama is a fearful man…
I worried that I would not get into the Yale debate with John Mearsheimer last night because it would be so crowded by hostile faction and faculty, but this was not a worry. A great hall with coffered ceiling teemed…
Jack Ross, who is writing a book about the anti-Zionist rabbi Elmer Berger, had this response to Ralph Seliger’s comments earlier today: I could go on forever about the absurdity of his premises about anti-Semitism and anti-anti-Semitism, but I’ll resist….
Ralph Seliger of Meretz USA sent me some “serious questions.” Here are two: 1. As I said, it’s fine if you personally believe in assimilation. Is it not intolerant of you to insist that we who believe in the value…
The Forward has an irresponsible piece of journalism about McCain’s Jewish supporters. I use that harsh term because while the reporting is interesting and contains some new facts, there is no effort to talk about the goals of McCain’s supporters…
Just received a note from Jack Ross saying “Kahanist Thunderbolt Is Going Under!” It referred me to this editorial from Seth Lipsky, editor of the New York Sun, warning that the paper is scrambling for new funding and may well…
The forthcoming issue of Middle East Policy contains an astonishing piece by Ian Lustick of the University of Pa. on the desperation inside Israel about its future, titled “The Abandonment of the Iron Wall: Israel and the ‘Middle Eastern Muck.'”…