“The world is too much with us”, said poet William Wordsworth. Well, it is certainly too much with me. The world—at least, my world, has been on a downward spiral since 2001, each disaster leading to its own compounding in a never-ending cycle of alternating cruelty and stupidity. The wanton murder of two innocent young…
Tag: Israel
Schumer gets one right, Schumer gets one wrong
Poor old Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break these days and shouldn’t catch one either, the old fool. Schumer’s reputation as a crafty and/or soulless specialist in inside the Beltway inside baseball took a massive beating a couple of days ago when Mr. Inside found himself smeared all over the web as Senator Sellout after…
Bret Stephens, starting to suspect that Donald Trump is not a very nice man
Considering the ungodly plethora of seriously bad people in the world these days—Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping, just to mention a few—why do I find it so necessary—or at least so convenient—to pick on New York Times columnist and Israel sycophant Bret Stephens? In the past, I think it was because his hypocrisies—his…
Yo, Bret Stephens! We know you’re a pr*ck! You don’t have to prove it every day!
No, you don’t, Bret. In the course of a “on the one hand, on the other” take on Trump’s foreign policies, praising “toughness” but bemoaning the lack of interest in, you know, “freedom”, Bret is heartened by Trump’s “get tough” approach to Iran: “Iran suddenly seems interested in discussing its nuclear program after treating the…
Why Harris is struggling: Joe Biden’s record
Kamala Harris came out of the gate like gangbusters, but now she’s slowed to an indifferent cantor. What’s the deal? The deal is, largely, the same as Hubert Humphrey’s, Al Gore’s, and Hillary Clinton’s: they can’t run away from their president’s record. Now, it’s easy to say that Joe was the victim of circumstance, though…
Samantha Power, powerless in Gaza
One would have to be cynical indeed—and I am not such—to enjoy the dilemma of Samantha Power, who once advocated U.S. intervention to avert whatever even looked like genocide at the drop of a hat, and who is now, as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, presiding over what looks an awful lot…
The New Yorker disgraces itself with its disgusting hit piece on Ta-Nehisi Coates, accused of, you know, TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL!
Break out the black crepe and send for the undertaker, folks. The New Yorker just committed journalistic suicide with its publication of “Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative”, staff writer Parul Sehgal’s pathetically dishonest pseudo-takedown of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “shocking” (and shockingly accurate) description of Israeli apartheid directed at Palestinians contained in his new book…
Socio-political notes from all over: The Ivies go down, Haas keeps covering aass, and Ryan Grim covers, and covers up for, “The Squad”.
The Ivies took a pounding, and New York Representative Elise Stefanik received a publicity boost more valuable than gold, and it couldn’t have come to a less deserving person.1 The supposedly brilliant scholars heading Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and M.I.T. came across as scripted robots, not responding actively to Stefanik’s leading questions—that “intifada”, which…
Israel versus Palestine: When Dreams Collide
“What a dreary compromise is life!” exclaimed the hero of Norman Mailer’s abortive magnum opus, The Man Who Studied Yoga.1 And so life is a dreary compromise for most of us, which is why we go to films to see people who do all the things we don’t do in real life, like punch out…
There is some good in all of us, some of the time
Today is Mea Culpa day at the Literature R Us corral, when I pause to stop making vicious fun of people I generally don’t like, like Eugene “Jan. 6? Wasn’t that a Tuesday?” Volokh and Ross “Yeah, I think it was a Tuesday” Douthat because, well, because they impressed me. I’ll talk about Gene first,…