Commentary

Iraqi election results a blow to Iran

Max Boot: Assuming that the preliminary results hold up, it will be another blow to Iran, which already suffered repudiation last year when the Iraqi parliament came to terms on...

Max Boot concedes Israel's defeat in Gaza

I read Max Boot’s latest for its actual strategic analysis. Dry the rest out, as they say, and you can fertilize the lawn. Nevertheless, when read between the lines, Boot...

Remember how Egypt still celebrates its "victory" in the 1973 war?

I finally remembered what Boot’s latest reminded me of: this (scroll down to the parts about the October Victory Hall, the Martyrs Hall, and the October 1973 War Panorama), and...

People reading their daily newspaper on a computer…sound far-fetched?

Obama reaches out to the Muslim world

I may have a slightly more positive reaction than other conservative-types to Obama’s interview with Al-Arabiya. Now, I certainly agree with Charles Krauthammer and others that Obama’s thumbnail history of...

David Foster Wallace excoriates John Updike

Polansky reminds me what a loss David Foster Wallace was, with a New York Observer review of John Updike’s Toward the End of Time from 1997: I’m guessing that for...