It’s not your typical relaxing day in Martha’s Vineyard: while on vacation, Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg got a call out of the blue from Fidel Castro’s office, inviting him down to the island for a chat, he explains in a piece titled “Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews.’” Apparently Fidel simply liked Read More
Hundreds gathered last night under the shimmering saucer dome of the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum to remember John Updike. The lights went down at 7 p.m., and a moment later the screen onstage flickered awake to show the late author seated three years ago in the very same room, Read More
The New York Times correspondent Robin Toner has died at age 54, according to a Times obituary by Todd S. Purdum.
Mr. Purdum writes that Ms. Toner was "the first woman to be the national political correspondent" for the paper:
In a career of nearly 25 years at The Times, Read More
The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg—who joined the magazine from The New Yorker last year—has started a blog.
His first entry, which features an endearingly retro Public Enemy reference as its title, begins with the self-effacing words, "This is almost certainly a mistake." Well, it can’t be as big Read More
When attacking the ideology of the neoconservatives, the big enchildada is dual loyalty: in their hearts, do they feel allegiance to Israel? Gabriel Schoenfeld of Commentary Magazine said that this was the clear thrust of Walt and Mearsheimer’s paper, they were accusing supporters of Israel of being a fifth column. W&M Read More
Jeffrey Goldberg’s wonderful new book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, opens with a scene worthy of Graham Greene. “On the morning of the fine spring day, full of sunshine, that ended with my arrest in Gaza, I woke early from an uneven sleep, dressed, and pushed back to its Read More
Jeffrey Goldberg’s wonderful new book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, opens with a scene worthy of Graham Greene. “On the morning of the fine spring day, full of sunshine, that ended with my arrest in Gaza, I woke early from an uneven sleep, dressed, and pushed back to its Read More
