This article originally appeared at Salon, on June 21, 1999. Thanks to the Cox Report, we now know that the seven years of the Clinton presidency have coincided with the most massive breach of military security in American history. As a result of the calculated degrading of security controls at America’s nuclear laboratories, the Chinese communists [...]

When the dust has finally settled on this lost year of American politics, there may be consolation in the fact that much of the damage is reparable, and that most of the scars inflicted on the nation will be readily healed. As a new election cycle rolls around, fresh faces will become the focus of [...]

This article originally appeared at Salon, on March 15, 1999. In the aftermath of the Senate trial of the president, the nation has been struggling to “move on,” to put the scandal and the partisan standoff over the impeachment process behind it and to get on with the political business at hand. Both left and right [...]

This article originally appeared at Salon, on March 1, 1999. Let’s begin by acknowledging the obvious: I am the last person Christopher Hitchens wants to see defending him in his current imbroglio with White House henchman and ex-friend Sidney Blumenthal. Like them, Hitchens and I were also once political comrades, though we were never quite proximate [...]

This article first appeared at Salon, on March 29, 2010. Those who condemn the betrayals of the witch-hunt era need to look now at their own. It is just a little over two years ago that I wrote my first column for Salon, a piece about Elia Kazan in which I called for an end to [...]

This article originally appeared at Salon, on July 19, 1999. A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a two-day gathering of liberal “media experts” sponsored by Vice President Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a “scientific” rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also attended) [...]

This article first appeared in FrontPage Magazine on January 9, 2002. 1. The Jewish Problem and Its “Solution” ZIONISM is a national liberation movement, identical in most ways to other liberation movements that leftists and progressives the world over — and in virtually every case but this one — fervently support. This exceptionalism is also [...]

This post first originally appeared at Salon, on August 2, 1999. Who in America today could be associated with a gang that carried out an execution-style murder of a prominent public official and the murder of a pregnant woman during a bank hold-up, and then, when finally arrested, be championed as an “idealist” by church [...]

This article originally appeared on 7 May 2010, here. I put this question to my investor friend, whom I’ll call Angel Ware, about the situation in Europe: Any insights into the ramifications of the Greek crisis? Here is his answer: “Well, it depends. The first question is whether or not the EU (i.e. Germany) will [...]