If you wanted to sense the power of Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas, there was no better place than the conservative synagogue Beth Hillel outside Philadelphia last night, a panel discussion sponsored by the rightwing Jewish Policy Center on radical Islam…
Hurray for democracy. The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board has also given a forum to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (and apparently made up for this by reprinting Richard Cohen’s Hatikvah-humming attack on the pair from the Washington Post of…
God bless the LA Times Editorial board, it met with Walt and Mearsheimer and published the dialogue! That’s called journalism. It was a real give and take. The LA Times people were critical, at times even conservative: Nick Goldberg suggested…
I’m a big fan of former South Dakota Sen. James Abourezk, but I raised an eyebrow over his statement that he had collided with Wolf Blitzer, then of AIPAC, at the “Federal Press Club.” I didn’t know what that is/was….
The Washington Post has an attack on Congressman Jim Moran that is full of casual and dismissive invective, the suggestion that he’s an antisemite who is afraid of the bogeyman, and is a captive of the Arab lobby (when of…
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt begin a book tour this week, Dallas to California. According to Amazon’s report of the New York Times bestseller list, their book on the Israel lobby is at #12 this coming week. Katy, bar the…
A year ago Stephen Walt was invited by University of Montana History Chairman Richard Drake to deliver the school’s annual Presidential lecture in Helena. Drake writes that he experienced a fusillade of angry mail — from other professors. “I have…
It’s often pointed out that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer used to work for AIPAC. In a highly-favorable review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel lobby, former Senator James Abourezk relates the following anecdote: My real Middle East education began…
We’re beginning to see the Walt and Mearsheimer effect. Not in coverage of their book or celebration of their ideas in the mainstream. No, that is a ways off. Actually we are seeing their effect in a far more pervasive…