At an appearance at Columbia University tonight, Stephen Walt, a Harvard professor and former dean, said that he and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were slated to speak at Google headquarters recently to discuss their bestselling book The Israel…
Ahead of news reports that Israel is moving the right direction on Jerusalem, Gershom Gorenberg has penned a moving letter to Hillary Clinton, urging her to abandon her effort to capture Jewish support by calling for an “undivided Jerusalem.” Americans…
The Israeli journalist Uri Avnery shares my view that Walt and Mearsheimer’s book is historic. He compares it to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Avnery joins a group of progressive Jews, including Michael Lerner, who welcome this book as a way out…
Walt and Mearsheimer spoke at Politics and Prose in Washington on September 5; C-Span aired the event tonight, over a month later. A pity the network should wait so long, on such a newsworthy event. The authors surprised me only…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s book tour comes to New York next week. Maybe some publications will finally do the feature story, Who are Walt and Mearsheimer and why did they do it? Here are my impressions. At almost 60, Mearsheimer is…
The best comment on the horrifying Desmond Tutu blacklisting in Minnesota comes from Tony Karon, who grew up in South Africa and notes that he heard the same maligning of Tutu from the apartheid leaders. (God does Karon’s blog look…
John Judis of the New Republic begins this very thoughtful article about Jim Moran in an angry way, by saying that the congressman’s statement that we wouldn’t be invading Iraq were it not for the Jewish community’s support was “false…
In my extended section below, you will see that on Amy Goodman today, Seymour Hersh said much what Mike Gravel said (in my previous post): the tattoo for war in Iran is being beaten by pro-Israel money in the political…
I keep declaring that the Walt and Mearsheimer is historic, that it has blasted down a wall in the American discourse. I keep getting more evidence. The following exchange took place on the Jim Lehrer News Hour last night, between…