The United States, Israel and the Arabs: Please, not again | The Economist For all their many horrors, the Lebanon war of 2006 and the Gaza war of 2009 were limited affairs. On the Israeli side, in particular, civilian casualties…
The United States, Israel and the Arabs: Please, not again | The Economist For all their many horrors, the Lebanon war of 2006 and the Gaza war of 2009 were limited affairs. On the Israeli side, in particular, civilian casualties…
Conor Friedersdorf After publishing videos of Vera that made him look like a sex trafficker and costing the man his job, did Breitbart explain how the mistake happened, apologize and correct the record? Did he alert his readers to the…
Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick should have been executed | ProFootballTalk “I’m a Christian, I’ve made mistakes myself, I believe fervently in second chances,” Carlson said. “But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And…
[amazon-product]0981709125[/amazon-product]In The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature, Curtis White deploys for ideological battle in a literary academic’s full panoply, and there is pleasure in seeing so much wit and erudition put to such radical ends, but…
What If Israel Ceases to be a Democracy? – Jeffrey Goldberg – International – The Atlantic I’ve had a couple of conversations this week with people, in Jerusalem and out of Jerusalem, that suggest to me that democracy is something…
The Fading Dream of Europe by Orhan Pamuk | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books As the economic crisis deepens and spreads, Europe may be able, by turning in on itself, to postpone its struggle to preserve the…
How Former ‘New Republic’ Editor-in-Chief Marty Peretz Has Found Peace in Israel — New York Magazine The fight, for Peretz, has always been about Israel first, and it has become particularly wrenching recently. As the Palestinian Authority began its…
Juan Williams: Palin can’t stand on the same intellectual stage as Obama Palin, like Williams, is a Fox News contributor. And when Williams was fired by National Public Radio this year after saying he felt nervous when he sees Muslims…