By • Apr 09,2009

Art imitating life

I’m pretty willing to give actors and musicians the benefit of the doubt in situations like this one: Put yourself in his shoes: it’s an early morning show, he’s been...

By • Apr 09,2009

Israel must stop building settlements

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Elliott Abrams dissents. For him, anti-settlement advocacy is a distraction. Abrams writes that the expansion of the Israeli settler population basically entails population growth...

By • Apr 09,2009

Affirmative action in sports

I like Kevin Blackistone, the ESPN talking head/AOL sports writer. He’s typically one of the calmer voices on the abomination that is Around the Horn and he usually has something...

By • Apr 08,2009

Thomas Hobbes on Bill Clinton

“For it is a great misfortune to a people, to come under the government of such a one, as knows not how to govern himself.” Thomas Hobbes, “Discourse upon the...

By • Apr 08,2009

Cossacks on Wall Street

I long ago accepted that the Wall Street Journal oped page took a Lear jet to Bizarro World, but this contribution on the possible rise of antisemitism in the wake...