My wife threw out my April Commentary–too long in the bathroom, I think–and so I can’t quote from R.R. Reno’s wonderful piece about working on oil-drilling crews in Wyoming (it’s only abstracted here). A nice contribution to the literature of…
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is staging an endless series of talks by “leading foreign policy experts” under the title, “Road to 2008: American Leadership in an Uncertain World.” The series includes neoconservative Joshua Muravchik, the American Enterprise Institute…
The latest issue of Commentary has a solemn black-bordered memorial to William F. Buckley Jr. as a “master” and “cherished friend” (and the magazine’s editor, John Podhoretz, offered this vaporous and largely meaningless eulogy). Buckley has also been fondly eulogized…
Though I dread what John Podhoretz might do to the editorial values, I just sent $79 to Commentary Magazine for a two-year renewal of my subscription. Now I’ve learned that new subscribers to Commentary are getting a free WORLD TERRORISM…
The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on Obama to fire General McPeak because he blamed American Jews for the lack of progress in the peace process… Meantime James Fallows is shocked that the Clintons are circulating the American Spectator hitjob…
You remember Merrill McPeak, the tall, lean retired general and military adviser for Obama who said last week that Bill Clinton was behaving like Joe McCarthy? Well in The American Spectator, McPeak is accused of a lack of political correctness…
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice has published a fine piece by Paul Maltby, an English prof at West Chester University, that calls on the Jewish community to repudiate the neocons as a “betrayal” of Jewish values. [Jonathan] Tobin [editor of the…
On the fifth anniversary of the dreadful invasion of Iraq, the Times is doing an investigation of the mistakes. Yesterday the paper ran a long piece on the “fateful” decision in May 2003 to disband the Iraqi army, with the…
Tony Karon has a fine post on the fact that Dick Cheney’s saber-rattling over Iran is meaningless. Bush won’t attack Iran. David Wurmser also said as much in his speech to Middle East Forum 10 days ago, poorly attended. Let…