My network is buzzing about Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. I can’t tell you how excited folks are. They have the feeling that it’s High Noon at last for the Israel lobby–that the issue will be mainstreamed at last. I’m getting…
Hurray for The New York Times. Today it covered Walt and Mearsheimer’s forthcoming book fairly (a piece penned by the wonderful Patricia Cohen, who broke the AJC anti-Zionism fatwa story last winter). The story is demoralizing. We learn that many…
I now have a copy of the letter John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt sent to the board of the Chicago Global Affairs Council after it cancelled their September appearance there under political pressure. The letter follows, below. A couple of…
The great biologist and student of ants, E.O. Wilson, was on C-Span the other day, endorsing, among other ideas, Einstein’s belief that we must all become vegetarians or turn the earth to powder. There are more than 500 vegetable species…
Unbelievable that Walt and Mearsheimer have been banned from speaking in Chicago. Again proving the profs’ argument about the strength of the Israel lobby. Where is Alan Dershowitz? Even he ought to decry this censorship, which is only forcing the…
The other day on C-Span, Robert Novak said that Hillary Clinton is singularly unlikeable. People don’t like her. I’ve seen that with my friends. Yet almost all of them believe she’ll be our next president. Likeability was prized a lot…
When Bonds caught Aaron yesterday, Commissioner Bud Selig said he or another baseball official would attend the Giants’ next few games “out of respect for the tradition of the game, the magnitude of the record and the fact that all…
In a testy exchange with a Christian radio host, Mitt Romney bridled at being linked to Mormon church doctrine on abortion and other fundamental concerns. “I’m not running as a Mormon,” Romney said, “and I get a little tired of…
Yesterday’s presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention was all about bashing lobbyists, but there was one lobby they didn’t touch. According to the official chatroom at YearlyKos, Israel was off the table: [11:52] Quirinal Raymaker: [Apropos of fighting Al Qaeda]…