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20 Oct 2009, 7:51 pm
Maimon Schwarzschild. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 2:08 am
In case you thought there couldn't be anything new about the Nazis or about the Shoah, here are two new, or newly discovered, people and perspectives. The first is Hans Keilson: now 101 years old and the author of Comedy in a Minor Key, newly republished. Keilson was a German-Jewish refugee and Resistance figure in Holland during the war. His parents were murdered in the Nazi gas chambers, but his book title is oddly appropriate: there is something almost upbeat in Keilson's story, and… [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 10:36 pm
Here is a fascinating essay posted last week by Yoram Hazony on why hatred for the Jewish state is so intense and so increasingly prevalent, especially (although by no means exclusively) among Europeans. Every few months, Israel is publicly pilloried in the international media and on university campuses around the world for some alleged violation of human rights, real or imagined. [W]hatever the ostensible subject... we know for certain that a few months from now [there]will be another… [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 5:08 am
Ten characteristically thoughtful theses on Obama from Scott Johnson at Powerline. Scott concludes: Tonight let us salute and congratulate Senator Obama as the author of a brilliant campaign and pray that he achieves greatness in office. To adapt the imprecation of Stephen Decatur: May he always be in the right; but our president, right or wrong. [read post]
2 May 2008, 5:41 pm
Boris Johnson is the new Mayor of London - defeating "Red Ken" Livingstone. This is a dramatic revival in the Conservatives' fortunes in England. Not just in London: Conservatives did convincingly better than Labour in the local-government elections throughout England yesterday. Foreign elections are not referenda on the United States, obviously: nor on President Bush. But during the Bush years, when we are told America has alienated the world,… [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 3:24 am
Here is a fascinating website about world cities: Urban Tours by Rental Car. The authors have posted shrewd and very realistic essays about cities around the world, with lots of photos that capture the look and feel of each city.Urban Tours by Rental Car offers perspectives on urban development obtained by automobile tours through urban areas. Rental cars are not the favored method for visiting cities, especially those outside one's own country. Instead, tourists and urban planners… [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 2:00 am
Should conservative-libertarian-fusionists boycott McCain and anticipate that a term or two of Democratic Party control will do the country and the world no irreversible harm? Or at least that McCain's defeat would push the Republicans to the right (a highly dubious proposition itself, I think) - and that the benefit of that would outweigh the drawbacks of an Obama or Clinton victory? Mike R. meditates that position here (and here and here) and he argues that I exaggerate… [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 3:00 am
Our colleague Steve Smith has posted a lovely article: "'Hollow Men'? Law and the Declension of Belief". The theme - a frequent theme of Steve's - is that law, like many other areas of life, tacitly presumes transcendent standards which modern secular people mostly don't believe in, or at least believe they don't believe in. Along the way, Steve looks back to Art Leff, one of the greatest 20th century law teachers and thinkers, who wrestled with… [read post]
10 May 2007, 3:01 am
The egregious Minneapolis Star-Tribune - but no more egregious than many if not most MSM papers around the country - is pushing out James Lileks. Maricopa Community College is taking steps to fire a tenured professor for e-mailing George Washington's Thanksgiving Address to his colleagues. (The e-mail had a link to Pat Buchanan's website where Washington's Address had been posted. Buchanan's views on illegal immigration constitute… [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 2:07 am
If and when a Democratic President is elected - with heavy media support, of course - how will the American media behave afterwards? There is a sad and fascinating piece by Michael Specter in last week's New Yorker about Vladimir Putin's Russia which might offer an implicit warning. Specter reports on the pervasive corruption and thuggishness of Putin's regime. This now includes the more or less open murder of Russians who criticise Putin, including the recent radioactive… [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 1:05 am
If you haven't been following Walter Russell Mead's blog, you ought to. It's now one of the best in the blogosphere. Among other things, Mead is thinking and writing in depth about what he usefully calls the failure of the blue model, and what might - and ought to - come next. Mead writes for the American Interest, and there is a lot more in addition to Mead on the AI website (and of course in the magazine). My favourite apart from (or in addition to) Mead? Peter Berger, the… [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 12:02 am
Here is a fascinating TLS review of The Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham. Their experiences of the First World War gave the dictators of the 1930s a heightened sensitivity to the importance of food supplies... Food [became] a purpose of war and one of the chief drivers of their strategies that led to the Second World War. Collingham shows how the fear of food insecurity was a common factor in the war plans of the dictators. Then she discusses how war distributed hunger. Everywhere the war disrupted… [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 2:14 am
The incomparable Michael Barone explains the Chicago politics behind the Blagojevich story. It is an interesting political system that can elevate someone as intellectually supple and sublime (in his best moments, anyway) as Obama and someone as supremely stupid and sordid as Blagojevich. Barone has respectful words for Jesse Jackson Jr, and even for Dan Rostenkowski. This is by no means a hit piece. But it is a… [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 1:44 am
"Tijuana [is] a city reeling from hundreds of slayings and kidnappings as drug gangs battle for dominance", says the San Diego Union Tribune. Tom, posting on Tuesday, rightly calls the violence and criminality there "unbelievable", "terrible". The virtual anarchy in Tijuana - and in other Mexican border cities, notably Ciudad Juarez - has complicated causes: certainly including drug… [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 2:06 am
Until a decade or so ago, the question of how much power judges and courts should have was almost uniquely an American question. America had "judicial review" ever since the Supreme Court read (or misread) it into the Constitution in 1803; but in other countries the courts had much less power - or none at all - to strike down laws or to make social policy by interpreting or "interpreting" the Constitution. But lately the rest of the world has been… [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 9:47 pm
Eugene Volokh wasn't even born when Ward Cleaver was leaving it to Beaver. And Volokh's parents and all his kin were off in the Ukraine somewhere at the time. By what right does David Brooks' confusion of Ward Connerly with Ward Churchill evoke Ward Cleaver in Volokh's imagination? Don't older and native-born Americans have any proprietary rights in our own cultural heritage? Is our very past now the common property of Ukrainian… [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 1:25 am
Melanie Phillips gives a chilling, detailed, and all too convincing report on the spread of anti-semitism in Britain. Overt anti-semitism is rife in Britain's large Muslim community. But it's not only among Muslims by any means:[A]nti-Semitism has also become respectable in mainstream British society. "Anti-Jewish themes and remarks are gaining acceptability in some quarters in public and private discourse in Britain and there is a danger that this trend will… [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 12:35 pm
Are here. There is even a visual. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 11:47 am
What are the prospects in this month's French presidential election? "In the polls, Nicolas Sarkozy (of the currently governing right wing UMPâ€â [read post]
13 Jan 2007, 3:20 am
When the court systems become politicized, does it encourage politicized prosecutions? There's no direct connection between a habit of judicial overrreaching when making public policy, and politicized criminal prosecutions. But realistically, if the courts are politicized in one way, they are more susecptible to being politicized in other ways as well. Dubious criminal prosecutions are certainly in the news. Dorothy Rabinowitz, in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, compares… [read post]
