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The Israel Lobby Revisited: A Year Since Walt and Mearsheimer’s Paper

There are not too many academic papers that manage to make a splash in the policy world as well as academe. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s paper on the role … Continue reading

14 March, 2007 · 18 Comments

Israeli Apartheid Comes to New Jersey

A very good piece by Saifedean Ammous in the Columbia Daily Spectator (rep. at Alternet), worth posting here in its entirety. Israeli Apartheid Comes to New Jersey By Saifedean Ammous … Continue reading

13 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Mock-ups Revisited

For a satirical article on putative liberal culpability, see David Michael Green’s Your Genitals: The Great Moral Issues of our Time (The Regressive Antidote :: ICH :: Common Dreams)

12 March, 2007 · 7 Comments

GWB Sums Up His Presidency

When the thief-in-chief is his own caricature, no satire is required. Now look, a lot of us um and aah and stammer on occasion. We’re all human. But we’re not … Continue reading

11 March, 2007 · 23 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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