With Rudy Giuliani inching closer to an official run for the presidency, it is worth taking a look at an area (besides the well-covered social issues) where the McCain camp clearly feels that he is vulnerable: foreign policy.
Last week, Newsday took a critical look at Rudy’s foreign experience, and John McCain, on Read More
From The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick (1999):
“In the Jewish tradition, some memories are very long lasting… Some memories, once functional, become dysfunctional. The concluding chapters of the Book of Esther tell of the queen’s soliciting permission to slaughter not just the Jews’ armed enemies but the enemies’ wives and children—with a Read More
On March 31, Bill Clinton stood on a small stage in the Allen Room on the top floor of Jazz at Lincoln Center, talking to an audience that included millionaires, nonprofit leaders and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. He spoke about everything from global warming to world poverty to playing basketball for peace in the Middle Read More
On March 31, Bill Clinton stood on a small stage in the Allen Room on the top floor of Jazz at Lincoln Center, talking to an audience that included millionaires, nonprofit leaders and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. He spoke about everything from global warming to world poverty to playing basketball for peace in the Middle Read More
In the midst of the Iraqi civil war that missed happening and the Dubai port takeover that shouldn’t happen, the Bush administration helped midwife something very right that will have good effects for many decades. President Bush met with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and welcomed India formally into the nuclear club. India was a Read More
In the midst of the Iraqi civil war that missed happening and the Dubai port takeover that shouldn’t happen, the Bush administration helped midwife something very right that will have good effects for many decades. President Bush met with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and welcomed India formally into the nuclear club. India was a Read More
Nehru and Le Corbusier.
Last weekend, Sonnabend Gallery opened its doors to an exhibition of work by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.
Organized by Galerie Patrick Seguin, the show traces their modernization project in India, which began shortly after independence.
Nehru wanted Le Corbusier to be “expressive, experimental and Read More
There are so many things to worry about or get indignant over that the United States’ agreement to help India build civilian nuclear-power plants didn’t get the attention it deserved. India, as its prime minister announced in 1998, is a nuclear power. It became one by secretly building a nuclear device and setting it off Read More
There are so many things to worry about or get indignant over that the United States’ agreement to help India build civilian nuclear-power plants didn’t get the attention it deserved. India, as its prime minister announced in 1998, is a nuclear power. It became one by secretly building a nuclear device and setting it off Read More
Last year, Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek International editor and television pundit, was invited to participate in a rather unconventional project.
The Dominican Republic had suffered an economic collapse, and the I.M.F. forced the country’s central bank to sell a 2,000-acre tract of lush beachfront property that it owned. A group of about 20 American luminaries Read More
