Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the dragon, he went home.…
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An Expat Named Superman
There were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States has slain Public Enemy Number One, and…
Continue reading →Leave Syria to the Syrians
This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen…
Continue reading →Photographers: The First Casualties of War
When journalists die in some foreign field, they die for you. Without them, your knowledge of the world in which…
Continue reading →War: Still a Racket
Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and “finish the job against al…
Continue reading →Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza
It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan’s puffed-up armies learned that lesson in June…
Continue reading →Let Us Now Praise Old Men
(with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1941) In Paris at the Shakespeare and…
Continue reading →An Open Letter to the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Dear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military intervention in Libya is an important warning from a…
Continue reading →Murdoch the Media Monopolist
Evidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire conspired illegally with private investigators to tap telephones and hack into…
Continue reading →Women and Democracy in the Middle East
One of Israel’s finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, “Just as there is no such thing as…
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