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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-did-to-israel/2011/05/26/AGJfYJCH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Here is American Likudnik in his carefully constructed and highly garnished attack, or even just a political tantrum directed at President Obama: he is either a knave or a fool; an incompetent or an Anti-Semite. No original thinking here, … Continue reading →

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In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In … Continue reading →

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From Arnaldo Momigliano. He published books written directly in French, English, Italian, and his native Portuguese. via facebook.com Just re-reading some sections of From Prague to Paris; J.G. Merquior’s superior intellectual history of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist thought, very lively and … Continue reading →

At the same time, Congress and the White House were rushing to enact legislation to prevent a lapse in several of the federal government’s investigative powers under the Patriot Act that were set to expire at midnight. The Senate passed … Continue reading →

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/sarah-palin-the-movie.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BN3V6uB8bYwNvj How did this man become, in the arena of American political opinionating, someone to pay attention to? It utterly baffles me that these banal observations rate any sort of attention. But you choose your characterization of this waste of … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-25/benjamin-netanyahus-speech-and-the-palestinian-right-to-dream/ Does Mr. Beinart know any ordinary people? Or are all his contacts overachievers, replicas of himself? Fadi Quran is representative of the groundswell of the Arab Spring, an aspiration within the framework of the cultivation of civic republican virtue. … Continue reading →