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Violence “Erupts” in Jerusalem
Some readers may have noticed that over time my posts on Israel/Palestine have become increasingly infrequent. That relative quietude reflects not indifference but despair. I’ve come to conclude that this is one of the many instances in which, contra Martin ...
Read MoreCentrist Bias
Just a quickie today: Since I always love seeing well-established pundits take up themes I have previously written about, I have to direct you to David Leonhardt’s excellent op-ed. in today’s NY Times. After you’ve read Leonhardt, you might want ...
Read MoreIsrael, the Left and Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is one of the NY Times’s house conservatives. Unlike his colleagues David Brooks and Ross Douthat, he seldom manifests any interesting departures from right-wing orthodoxy, though, to his credit, he is an anti-Trumper. Like many ideologues of both ...
Read MoreRemembering Willie Horton
The custom of saying only good things about the recently departed is well-established and mostly harmless in everyday life, but it should be rooted out of our public discourse. The death of a major political figure is and should be ...
Read MoreA New Year’s Movie Recommendation
Happy New Year! When have I ever made a movie recommendation on this blog? Actually, never. So, since I am doing that today, you know it must be with good reason. “The Post” is terrific, a true must-see. Not only ...
Read MoreEnough, Already
Donald Trump is a narcissistic boor with a seriously impaired capacity for empathy with other human beings. Those personality characteristics explain his tactless choice of language in his condolence call to the widow of the slain serviceman, David Johnson. And ...
Read MoreBravo Bernie
Repeating a charge that he has made on previous occasions, Bernie Sanders has called Donald Trump a shameless liar. That might seem unremarkable, since Trump is, demonstrably, just that. But I don’t think any other major US politician has come ...
Read MoreTrump’s War on the Media
Such ingratitude! Watching The Great Populist inveigh against the enemy of the people, it’s too easy to forget that Trump actually owes his spectacular political success to the very media he now excoriates. A loutish demagogue with no experience in ...
Read MoreThe Mayor, the Tabloid and the Times
New York City’s Mayor Bill De Blasio has had it with the New York Post. On Thursday, the mayor described the tabloid as a “right-wing rag” and pointedly refused to take a question from one of it reporters. Later, in an ...
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