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27 Nov 2007, 10:40 pm
Josh Gerstein, writing in the NY Sun, tells a fascinating story of James Dean Walker, an Arkansas prisoner on the lam, and the Clintons during Bill Clinton's years as Governor of Arkansas. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 1:10 am
The Washington Post reports ongoing claims for reparation by the descendants of Jewish families who were expropriated - robbed - of their property by the Nazis. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 2:05 am
Hugo Chavez is consolidating his thuggish dictatorship in Venezuela. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 1:16 am
On a more hopeful note about campus life, a friend who is a first year undergraduate at a major midwestern state university reports on her Irish history class: a rigorous class with a wide-ranging and sophisticated reading list and a professor who "strives to be scrupulously fair to all the bitterly contending sides". [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 6:48 am
Stuart Taylor has it right, alas, about what is happening on all too many campuses:[The] cancerous spread of ideologically eccentric, intellectually shoddy, phony-diversity-obsessed fanaticism among university faculties and administrators is far, far worse and more inexorable than most alumni, parents, and trustees suspect... [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 2:56 am
It is 89 years today since the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918 - the day the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front (and on all fronts) at precisely 11-11-11: 11.00 am, November 11. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 2:55 am
On a happier anniversary note, I ventured out to dinner last night in the not-so-mini mini-mall that serves as a Little India in the San Diego area - and arrived to find a huge crowd converging on the scene. [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. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 2:10 am
The New York Times ran a front-page story recently about an elderly man who starved to death in Japan, having been denied help by the welfare bureaucracy. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 1:43 pm
Michael Barone has it right about the ugly political religion that now reigns at universities and colleges. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 2:34 am
Columbia President Lee Bollinger's introduction - and criticism - of Ahmedinejad was fairly tough, and in some other context would have been admirable. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 4:36 am
  My fellow Right Coaster Maimon Schwarzschild had tipped my off that I would find something interesting there. [read post]
3 Sep 2007, 7:38 pm
MORE ON PETE SEEGER, from Maimon Schwarzschild. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 9:29 am
  (I was made to recall this essay by Maimon's interesting post on Hiroshima and the comments on it below.) [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 12:00 pm
Maimon reports what he terms the "melancholy" aspects of the news from Istanbul:  "[M]any if not most women now wear Islamic (or Islamist) costume - ranging from headscarves to the full Saudi or Iranian black burqa. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 5:55 am
The appeal challenges Judge Tengku Maimon's order awarding Mahathir legal costs, and also seeks [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 3:25 am
The British academic trade unions have again voted for a "comprehensive and consistent boycott" of all Israeli scholars and academic institutions: expressing an all-but-explicit hope for the extinction of the Jewish state. [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. [read post]