The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion. Bernard Harrison Rowman & Littlefield. 224 pp. $22.95. According to the famous 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica...
View ArticleStalin’s Music Master
Press reports recently announced the death, at age 94, of Russian composer Tikhon Khrennikov (1913-2007). For four decades, Khrennikov headed the Union of Soviet Composers and advanced his own career,...
View ArticleThe Star-Wars Fantasy
Back in June, the Democratic-controlled Congress was reported by Aviation Week to be planning to cut funding for the Airborne Laser (ABL), an essential element in American efforts to develop a shield...
View ArticleObama Fumbles
Presidential campaigns have come to look like the Major League Baseball playoffs: drawn out, not really as competitive as the media would prefer, and loaded with filler material. Had Barack Obama...
View ArticleCollege or Kindergarten?
Powerline points to yet another instance of a campus roiled by a spurious accusation of racism. Gabriel Keith, a student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and a Marine with three terms of...
View ArticleThe Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
It’s official: the trip that Benjamin Ivry deemed “likely” to happen on this blog in October will indeed go forward. This coming February, the New York Philharmonic will visit North Korea. About the...
View ArticleBookshelf
• Everyone agrees that newspapers aren’t what they used to be—but what did they use to be? Fewer and fewer of us can remember a time when independently owned big-city newspapers, with their dictatorial...
View Article“Stay Positive”
I first discovered William F. Buckley in my early teens. In an effort, I suppose, to become more serious and informed, I started regularly reading the Star Ledger—the closest thing to a real newspaper...
View ArticleA Key Endorsement
Hillary Clinton snags the endorsement of perhaps the most important Indiana paper, the Indianapolis Star. In an endorsement which is quite useful in spelling out the candidates’ fundamental differences...
View ArticleCPAC: Past, Present, and Future
One former VP, a former (and current) presidential aspirant, and a future rock star came to the CPAC gathering today. Two of them aren’t running for president in 2012, and you can bet the other is....
View ArticleAn Alternate History: In Which the Pundits Had Obama Pegged
David Brooks has an amusing column that speculates about what an alternative set of decisions by Obama (e.g.,an energy bill before ObamaCare, tax cuts instead of the spend-athon) would have looked...
View ArticlePink Floyd Singer’s Attack on Israel Given an Assist by Its Defenders
The Anti-Defamation League may have unwittingly done pop-rock icon Roger Waters a favor when it came down on him recently like a ton of bricks and accused the Pink Floyd star of anti-Semitism. Unlike...
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