Word reached these shores last week that Professor Noam Chomsky—the celebrated public intellectual, activist, linguist, philosopher and all-round “left-wing” critic of U.S. foreign policy—had been detained for five hours by border guards, and then denied entry to occupied ...
A recent report by Scott McConnell, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, that Emperor BarackO, Proconsul Hillary Clinton, and the Praetorian General, David Petraeus, have “crossed the Rubicon” in dealing with the runaway province called Israel has turned out to be an exercise ...
Let’s see. We have an oil gusher out of control in the Gulf of Mexico with no end in sight, threatening the coastline all the way down to Miami, a New York stock exchange which can be launched into a thousand-point nose dive apparently by the push of a computer key from a faceless and no ...
My tailor is just one shade lighter than Obama. He is from the Dominican Republic, and speaks Spanish most of the time when he’s not speaking to me. He’s a hard-working, legal immigrant who loves baseball, fishing, and photography. He’s up on current events, because he has the TV ...
Zurich has a reputation for being stodgy, but it ain’t so, at least not after hours. On one of my first visits, I met a Dublin girl by the name of Mary O"Connell downstairs at the hotel bar, which was an Irish bar and a hot spot. She worked as an au ...
Soon after starting from “Junction” the first time on the Cresta Run, my mind went racing, “This cannot be happening. I am going way too fast and there is no control. Why didn’t somebody warn me?” Somehow I made it safely to the end, which was in Celerina, the next ...
My last article “The Sack of Annapolis” generated a minor firestorm from respondents. In some instances, the comments—by now over 70—were more interesting and informative than the article itself. Certain comments I agreed with; others I didn’t. Some I understood; ...
We all let old newspapers pile up, don’t we? For my peace of mind, I hope so. At what point does this activity become compulsive behavior? A few days ago, on the last day of 2007, I found myself rearranging stacks of unread national editions of the New York Times along with some weekend ...
Rightly or wrongly, we will be held responsible for the outcome in Palestine and for the ultimate fate of the Palestinians. In a real sense, we will be paying for it. Actually, we have been paying for it for a long time, and not just in terms of "foreign ...
The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 mark a very significant turning point in American history. The attacks took place near the beginning of a new American presidency, and the repercussions have defined that presidency, even self-defined it, one could say. I tried in The Unauthorized World ...
