Month: July 2014

I’m not sure what I’ve done to cause Robert Stacy McCain to call me a “wretched leftist scumbag,” and I don’t share his disdain for “elite institutions of higher education.” I think...

I don’t know that William Deresiewicz really made the case that Ivy League schools are overrated, but he did raise a lot of interesting issues. Having grown up in Princeton, I can be a little sensitive about how Ivy...

I don’t think Israel’s problem is that the Palestinians have telegenically dead people. I think their problem is that they started a war of choice and they aren’t achieving their goals and are showing signs of...

According to a recent Marist poll, 89% of Iowan Democrats and 94% of New Hampshire Democrats have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. In both states, at least 70% of Democrats expressed their support for a Clinton candidacy...

There should be no discrepancy on the whereabouts of the two black boxes. How the hell can Dutch FM Matk Rutte, overnight turned Neocon pro-Atlanticist and anti-Russian, tell the Dutch people just minutes ago: – Op verzoek...