First published at FrontPage Magazine on March 8 2007 here. Blumenthal recently attacked the Freedom Center in a piece here. The successes of the academic freedom campaign and the publication of The Professors have produced a rash of websites and a phalanx of pundits devoted to attacking them. Their assaults deploy the unsavory weapons of [...]

This article was originally published by Salon on November 3, 1997. Six months ago I wrote in Salon that the AIDS crisis was“just beginning.” Despite — even because of — the development of anti-viral drug “cocktails” and a modestly declining death rate, the sexual promiscuity among gay males that fueled the epidemic, I wrote, was likely [...]

This article was originally published by Salon on December 15, 1997. Try this exercise: Imagine that a white player in the National Basketball Association had first tried to strangle his black coach and then threatened to kill him in front of the whole team. Suppose that this white player had previously threatened a teammate with [...]

When conservatives try to meet at Columbia, ideologues shout them down, with the backing of the administration.

This article was originally published by Salon on February 10, 1997. At a time when its latest heroes are a fascist (Eva Peron) and a misogynist (Larry Flynt), it is perhaps not surprising that Hollywood is experiencing a crisis of conscience in finding a place in its heart for a patriot like Elia Kazan. Last [...]

This article was originally published by Salon on November 17, 1997. The oddest feature of the affair that pits White House flak Sidney Blumenthal against Internet gadfly Matt Drudge is probably the most revealing: the failure of the press to defend one of its own. Last August, Blumenthal filed a $30 million libel suit against Drudge [...]

This article was originally published by Salon on December 1, 1997. Of all the misnomers of our political vocabulary, “progressive” is the most abusive and the most abused. “Progressive” is the accepted term for the political left today, just as it was 50 years ago, when it was used as a self-description by Communists and [...]

Why does President Clinton still get a pass from America’s feminists? Because being a liberal is more important than being a sexual predator.