Philip Kennicott recently wrote in The Washington Post about the destruction of the Askariya shrine in Iraq as an attack on religion, as well as architecture. The building was an example of the “magnificence” of Islamic design reserved for the burial places of Imams.
We noticed a little late, but the same convergence Read More
In an era when the United States needs to maintain a strong international alliance against terrorism and is seeking a worldwide consensus against the spread of weapons of mass destruction, George W. Bush still insists on outdated unilateralism. His announcement on May 6 that he intends to “unsign” the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court Read More
As Dick Young used to say, the postman knocks and knocks:
Dear Wise Guys:
I am reading a novel set in the next century, and I am puzzled. Reviewers have said that it captures the way “we” speak, act, think and otherwise carry out our daily lives. But, Wise Guys, I don’t recognize a soul Read More
It’s two months since Secretary of State Madeleine Halfbright’s remark that a couple of cruise missiles up Slobodan’s ass and it’ll all be over Over There. We’re heading toward Day 60 of bombardment and the buggers in Belgrade still refuse to surrender. In what may come to be called the Coward’s War, civilian casualties mount Read More
Our flighty Bill Clinton has had himself another one of his 10-day topics. The Prexy’s fickle attention having been caught by the Colorado high school murders, he has flitted onto gun control and is expatiating on the subject with all the tremolo and corn-pone compassion that has endeared him to us, lo, these many years Read More
Obviously, we’re going to be dealing with guns and violence this week. But before we turn our focus to the domestic variations on the theme, let us, for a moment, consider two seemingly unrelated items from the European theater:
First, there was the stunning-no, make that shocking, absolutely shocking!-attack on Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic’s Read More
If any questions about the regime in Belgrade still lingered before the events of the past week, the totalitarian and genocidal character of Slobodan Milosevic’s gangster government is now past any pretense of doubt. So is the American interest in defeating Mr. Milosevic, who has spent the past several years transforming himself from a small-time Read More
