Only Bigots Oppose the Mosque!
“Where are the Republican leaders who will reject pandering and prejudice?” wailed The Washington Post in its most recent editorial in support of Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero. Like the controversy over ...
“Where are the Republican leaders who will reject pandering and prejudice?” wailed The Washington Post in its most recent editorial in support of Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero. Like the controversy over ...
Plus, L’Insctint de Mort puts Pacino to shame, the US Open returns to Queens, Jonathan Franzen finally gives us a second novel, and more cultural gems to love this week Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and ...
It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who has made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. ...
For a codger like me, the Beloit College Mindset List made depressing reading. Apparently this college (liberal arts, 1,300 students, in Wisconsin somewhere, motto: Scientia Vera Cum Fide Pura: “True Science with Pure ...
Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America? On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque ...
As I type this, the national pissing contest regarding Judge Vaughn Walker's decision overturning California's anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 is the top news story on both Yahoo! and Google. Back in 2008, amid a ...
Plus, La Sonnambula in Sydney, The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, and more picks to love this week The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, through September 12 Designed by the critically acclaimed architect Carmody ...
This is no time to be a journalist, especially if you happen to be a Kurd. Under assault from Turkey and Iran, Kurdish journalists are imprisoned, tortured and intimidated. An Iranian revolutionary court sentenced one Kurdish ...
On board S/Y Bushido. Sailing down the eastern coast of the Peloponnese I thought I spotted some anti-Semites adrift, but they turned out to be Norwegians, flying a British flag. Although becalmed they needed nothing but a ...
In July 1939 George Orwell published a review of Clarence Streit’s book Union Now, which proposed that the fifteen big, modernized, democratic nations—the U.S.A., France, Britain, etc—unite under a federal ...
Plus, the city of Metz takes on Paris, war film Lebanon puts The Hurt Locker to shame, and the Dia Art Institute opens an unconventional space Sympathy for the Devil In this collection of short stories the reader gets to ...
On board s/y Bushido. “ Trimming the Jib” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway and it has to do with the sea. And love. And passion. He wrote it shortly before “The Old Man and the Sea,” which helped land him the ...
In journalism school, where I learned how to use commas, many of my teachers were commies. I’m not accusing them of being communists"they told me so themselves. One instructor boasted of how he always spent his ...
A more useless and unnecessary thing than an expedition into this country could not be imagined… These are words lifted from the diary of Brigadier-General Henry Brooke who, in April 1880, took command of the British ...