The partisan Russian meddling cases are helping no one
There are two ways of looking at the multi-million dollar suit that the Democratic National Committee filed last week in…
A reek of imperial failure and War-on-Terror resentment: Beirut reviewed
Is Jon Hamm’s name really Jon Hamm? Or is it a stage name, meant to telegraph his acting style? When…
Israel at 70: there’s no failure like success
On Wednesday, Israel marks seventy years of statehood. When David Ben Gurion declared independence on May 14th, 1948—the anniversary floats…
Comey pees on Trump
And we thought the FBI knows things that we don’t know. On Sunday night on ABC News, James Comey, who…
Review: Chappaquiddick – Ted Kennedy and the Fall of Dickarus
They called Ted Kennedy the Lion of the Senate. He spent most of his time stuffed, satiated and asleep, and…
Bombing Syria would be a grave mistake
‘The whole of the Balkans,’ Otto von Bismarck said, ‘is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.’ He…
Zuckerberg’s Facebook hearing makes me fear for the future of democracy
Mark Zuckerberg came to Washington this week. Just an ordinary, common-sense guy, with matching hoodies in his roll-on, and a…
America’s defeat in Syria is complete
The Syrian civil war is in its endgame, and the ‘political solution’ that the leaders of the Western democracy talk…
Mohammed bin Salman’s fake news
Some people will believe anything, so other people will say anything, especially if they’re desperate. The headline news in Saudi…
Why are Harvard and MIT selling out to the Saudis?
Harvard and MIT will sell anything to anybody, regardless of the national interest
Does President Trump believe in the resurrection?
Easter weekend must be interesting for the interfaith First Family
Trump vs Biden, Peterson vs Mishra — American culture is going the way of WWF
Americans breathed a sigh of disappointment last week when the promised super-heavyweight bout between Joe Biden and Donald Trump stalled…
March For Our Lives is another Children’s Crusade – and it’s time adults listened
“Twenty-first century people shouldn’t be governed by eighteenth-century laws,” was the slogan on one of the home-made placards I saw…
Will Trump take on Big Pharma and the insurance companies?
Yesterday, Donald Trump went to New Hampshire, the ‘Granite State’ or, as he calls it, a ‘drug-infested den’. He has…
Facebook’s privacy failings are no accident
Remember Nudge? It was a 2008 book by Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, full of bright…
Seven Days in Entebbe and the nostalgia for 1970s terrorism
It was only Seven Days in Entebbe, but it felt like an eternity. The rescue in July 1976 by Israeli…
Democrats should look closer to home to find collusion with Russia
For Donald Trump, yesterday was a bad day to bury good news. While Rex Tillerson’s resignation as Secretary of State…
Tech companies are trusts that need to be busted
The World Wide Web is twenty-nine years’ old today, according to its Dr. Frankenstein, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Or is that…
The course of American empire
These days, the political climes of the United States are deeply unhappy. The weather, as if endorsing the pathetic fallacy…
Donald Trump and the unreality of a two-state solution
The AIPAC conference, that annual celebration of the triangular romance between America, Israel and American Jews, concluded last night with…
The 2018 Oscars were indulgent, overlong, and weirdly amateurish — again
It was always going to be difficult for this year’s Oscars to balance politics and entertainment, the sweeping declaration with…
Oscars 2018: and the winners are…
Tomorrow night, TV viewers will take to their couches for a night of Hollywood glamour, razzmatazz and gross hypocrisy. A…
Bruce on Broadway – and out of touch
Bruce Springsteen promised that he was ‘Born To Run’, and now, like Judy Garland and Ethel Merman before him, he…
What do Walt Whitman, Jackson Pollock and Jimi Hendrix have in common?
On 3 September 1968, Allen Ginsberg appeared on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line. Buckley exposed Ginsberg’s politics as fatuous —…
