Legitimate Complaints
Polemicists being what they are, it’s no surprise that many have used the death of celebrity centerfold Anna Nicole Smith to suggest that our society is overly sexualized, that girls need better role...
View ArticleSam Tanenhaus: Arsonist
The current issue of the New Republic contains a caustic exchange between me and Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Sunday New York Times book review. Tanenhaus had written an article in TNR about William F....
View ArticleOne Step Back, Two Steps Forward
An interesting article appeared in the Sunday New York Times updating developments in Basra. Things are not going so well in this large city in southern Iraq, where various Shiite militias are battling...
View ArticleNew World’s Record for Chutzpah: Obama’s Seder
Some 19 years ago, the first president Bush earned the enmity of American Jews with his rant about being “one lone guy” standing up against the horde of AIPAC activists exercising their constitutional...
View ArticleChabon Swings at Israel — and Hits Peter Beinart!
Novelist Michael Chabon is generally coy about his position on the Jewish state. Unlike his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, Chabon tends to refrain from open anti-Zionism, although as the author of a...
View ArticleGaza Through Fresh Eyes Reveals Normality, Not Horror
The image of the Middle East in general and the Palestinian territories in particular is one of squalor and bloodshed. There has been plenty of the latter throughout the years, but anyone who visits...
View ArticleObama: ‘I Do Not Want to Screw This Up’
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Peter Baker’s massive front-page story in the Sunday New York Times about Obama as commander in chief. I share some of the disquiet expressed by Jennifer Rubin...
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