An announcement received on my email indicates that Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, has been invited to Heritage Foundation on October 18 to deliver a "lecture" on "The Israeli Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control." I also learned that the eminent Mr. Foxman is ...
Is there a useful comparison to be drawn between Maurras, a monarchist and religious skeptic who enlisted French Catholicism for political purposes, and the Straussian boosters of American global democracy? Are the Straussians, who appeal to a certain notion of transcendence in order to teach ...
Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his widely discussed address at Columbia University last week maintained that homosexuals do not exist in his country, the neocon-Republican war squad has gone into high gear stressing the persecution of gays under the Mullahs. Listening to the foaming Sean Hannity and ...
Reading reviews in the national press about Norman Podhoretz's The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism (Doubleday), I was struck by how oblivious to certain facts the reviewers of this book seem to be. Haven"t Ian Buruma of the New York Review of Books, Jay Nordlinger of National Review, ...
A few days ago I was diverted from working on my computer by an exchange on FOX between Bill O"Reilly and someone described as his "ombudswoman." The lady in question pointed out to O"Reilly that he had been rude to Ron Paul, who had been on his show, and that he kept interrupting ...
Reconsidering Immediate Withdrawal From Justin's reply to my last blog and from the comments that followed, I gather that my concern about a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq is not widely ...
The Republican presidential primary debate held last week did not really change my mind about who gets my vote (Ron Paul); nonetheless, it did raise for me certain questions about the candidates" differing assessments of the war in Iraq. For the record, I think Congressman Paul was too ...
I"ve just finished two books written by promising young scholars, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution" by Kevin A. C. Gutzman and "33 Questions about American History You"re Not Supposed to Ask" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Refreshingly, neither of the authors seems interested ...
Although we have met only several times in our lives, and then only briefly, I have followed the career of George F. Will with at least intermittent interest. We are almost the same age (I"m a few months older), and in his early years, Will showed the kind of knowledge of historical and ...
Unless I"m mistaken, the liberal-neocon establishment will black out my new book, on the conservative movement, with the same dogged malice it brought to bear against my previous five works, including a tome published in a prestigious series by Princeton. It is therefore important that I ...
