This article originally appeared in FrontPage Magazine on June 12, 2006. Some people think I am unfair to Cornel West when I refer to him as an over-praised, over-paid academic airhead. I always try to see the other side in disagreements like this, but I have a real problem with this one. Here it is. [...]
This article originally appeared in FrontPage Magazine on March 19, 2007. A year ago the biggest issue in education after budgets was whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in the nation’s schools. Opponents called it a form of “creationism” and the press dubbed the ensuing legal battle as the biggest clash between faith and science [...]
This article originally appeared at Salon on January 11, 1999. The story of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quiché Mayan from Guatemala whose autobiography catapulted her to international fame, won her the Nobel Peace Prize and made her an international emblem of the dispossessed indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their attempt to rebel against the [...]
I’m posting this column from an American warrior who had the courage to tell his countrymen the truth. I’m sending him a copy of the book I wrote with Ben Johnson, Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9/11 to show him that a few of us [...]
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 [...]
Today is a day for conservatives to thank Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for destroying the Democratic majority in Congress, stopping the progressive juggernaut and putting Republicans in a perfect position to take control of the Senate in 2012 and eject the Radical-in-Chief from his Oval perch. Watching the MSNBC leftists Olbermann, Matthews [...]
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 [...]
This article first appeared at Salon on 28 May, 1999. On many occasions over the past few years, including innumerable campaign appearances and three State of the Union addresses, the president of the United States has looked the American people in the eye and assured them that because of his policies, “There are no more [...]
This article first appeared at Salon, on September 13, 1999. One of the many letters responding to my Salon News column aboutblack racism and denial was from an angry Chicago reader named Alice Huber, who introduced herself as an African-American woman married to a white man. According to Huber, I was indeed a “bigot,” as [...]
This post first appeared at Salon, on July 6, 1999. The other day I picked up a phone message from a woman concerning a charity event for homeless youngsters that I was helping organize in Hollywood. The woman is a liberal, and she said she had found a friend who was willing to volunteer her [...]
I don’t think Democratic voters, disillusioned with Obama, are going to come out in force on Tuesday and I think that Republicans — scared for their country to a greater degree than they have ever been — will. It is my guess (and it is a guess) that the tide against the Democrats is so [...]
This article first appeared in Salon, on October 25, 1999. The other day I received an e-mail from a stranger posing two questions that have been on my mind for some time; thus his message seemed uncannily personal. “I was curious,” the writer said, “if you have ever looked at your political ‘apostasy’ and wondered [...]
This article first appeared in Salon on January 18, 1999. What is it with progressives? Why do they feel the need to lie so relentlessly about who they are? Recently Rigoberta Menchú’s autobiography was exposed as a complete hoax. Now it’s Betty Friedan’s turn to be revealed as a feminist fibber. In a new book, [...]
