I heard a report that Sen. Barack Obama’s position on Israel/Palestine is no different from the Democratic mainstream, that in fact he abandoned a more progressive view—which you might expect given his multicultural/international backstory—to get there.
I asked someone who would know, Ali Abunimah (of electronic intifada), who lives in Chicago. Abunimah wrote Read More
On a recent Tuesday evening, Mahmood Mamdani, a bookishly handsome and relentlessly incendiary political theorist, spoke at a forum on the subject of academic freedom held at Columbia University, where he teaches.
Not long ago, in the pages of Foreign Affairs, he wrote that “the neoconservatives are a twin of al Qaeda”-the kind of rhetorical Read More
Baseball fans will argue through the winter about exactly why Roger Clemens picked up a shattered baseball bat and hurled it towards Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the World Series. Was it an accident, or were his motives malicious?
There is no such uncertainty about Columbia University professor Edward Said, a major-league agitator Read More
The Edward Said Reader , edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin. Vintage, 472 pages, $15.
Did you see the newspaper pictures last month of Columbia University professor Edward Said? He wasn’t photographed in his campus office or before a classroom of undergraduates or strolling in Morningside Heights–too commonplace for Mr. Said. He was in Read More
For more than a century, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital has been providing New Yorkers with world-class care and has been home to outstanding ophthalmologists, cosmetic surgeons and other medical professionals. Indeed, the hospital set the standard by which other facilities offering special care were measured. But now the venerable East Side institution Read More
Out of Place: A Memoir , by Edward W. Said. Alfred A. Knopf, 295 pages, $26.95.
Edward Said, an author with many claims to celebrity, has now written an account of his early life. Of Palestinian origin, he lived mostly in Cairo before going to an American prep school, Princeton and Harvard. His remarkable father Read More
