When David Shipley, editor of the New York Times Op-Ed page, and Will Schwalbe, editor in chief of Hyperion Books, met for oysters in Grand Central Terminal in May of 2005, neither man would have guessed that their conversation that day would result in a 247-page book about e-mail.
“We were having lunch at the Read More
In July 2004, Zogby International Surveys interviewed 3,300 Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Asked to identify “the best thing that comes to mind about America,” almost all of the respondents replied: “Nothing at all.”
Since then, according to Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, Read More
Tom Ricks of the Washington Post is ticked that I said he is on “the left” (in my last item re Obama). He wrote me a note, here’s the exchange:
TR: Describing Iraq as a Hobbesian state worse than a civil war makes one aShortly before 9:00 a.m. this morning, the Pentagon announced that the number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq has reached 2,500.
In the wake of the announcement, the following happened:
Fox News released the results of a Fox News poll touting a five point rise in Bush’s approval ratings.
White House Read More
James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex.
House of War is not about the Pentagon as an institution or even as a symbol. Read More
James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex.
House of War is not about the Pentagon as an institution or even as a Read More
So The New York Times has found six generals who want Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign. The peace party often makes a show of embracing the martial virtues, though they should be careful what they ask for. People often suspect a ruse, and the uniformed front men that come forward are not necessarily Read More
After three years, tens of thousands of lost and ruined lives, hundreds of billions of squandered dollars and incalculable damage to the respect for America around the world, it is strange to look back on the earliest days of the war in Iraq. On this unhappy anniversary, it is worth recalling the triumphal mood of Read More
First, the bad news: Two new books are going to forcefully remind us of the long-term disaster we’re busy ushering in. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Grove/Atlantic) is endorsed with a blurb from Tony Blair; and Elizabeth Kolbert’s sober and scary Read More
