Ever since the rise of the neocons, my liberal Democratic mother and I have had the same argument. I say, “They’re Jews, and they’re representing Jewish political aims.” She says, “No they’re not. They’re a bunch of rightwing nuts. You…
In today’s Times, there was a profile of rightwing radio host Michael Savage that made something of his Jewishness. Turns out his real name is Weiner and he has a picture of his bar mitzvah in a glass case. “Tell…
I’ve failed to blog about something significant I saw nearly 2 weeks ago, at the Israel Policy Forum annual in New York City. Somewhat sore-thumbish in the large crowd was a tall dark-haired square-jawed guy accompanied by his tall blond…
In its piece on candidates wooing the Des Moines Register for its editorial endorsement, how pleasing to see that the Times led off with a description of Bill Clinton’s visit, stating: “as his sport utility vehicle idled outside, former President…
This week I did an article for New York Magazine on a big financier with houses all over who is in trouble in Florida for soliciting prostitution. The Palm Beach police record says that he had two girls a day…
Top seven reasons why John Edwards will be the Democratic nominee: 1. Candidacies flare and die like roman candles. Edwards hasn’t had his flare, Obama’s will soon die down. It was right about now that Kerry began to reemerge in…
In a month, Jacob Heilbrunn’s book on the neoconservatives, They Knew They Were Right, will be published by Doubleday. I’m reviewing it for the American Conservative, and Doubleday gave me permission to quote the following. One of Heilbrunn’s scores is…
The Jewish Question tormented Europe for centuries. How do emerging nations deal with a state-within-a-state, a people who have been ghettoized and have a corporate sense of themselves as distinct? Jewish difference and exceptionalism (Jewish “genius,” as Commentary puts it)…
Robert Keohane, the international-relations scholar who debated Walt and Mearsheimer at Princeton Monday night, has supplied a copy of his opening comments to the assiduous James Morris, who passed them on to me. Two excerpts: “The charge of anti-Semitism is…