The Arab League wants a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping mission to end the 11-month conflict in Syria. Damascus "categorically rejected" the resolution. The League's move comes one week after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that...

Judt was a public intellectual who wrote extensively about other public intellectuals, his thoughts on his peers are doubly fascinating. Judt wrote several penetrating book-length explorations of the follies and triumphs of French intellectuals and...

Starr administration had stripped Marc Ellis of his teaching duties and effectively shuttered his Center for Jewish Studies. An internal Baylor University investigation was underway, the charges cloaked in secrecy. Ellis, a tenured professor described...

Barrymore Laurence Scherer 'I'm an occidental woman in an Oriental mood for love," sings the curvaceous Queen of Innuendo, Mae West, sporting a bespangled pseudo-Chinese headdress in the 1936 film "Klondike Annie." The scene is classic West and pure...

The Outreach Center's search engine turns up lectures and readings by or drawn from the Israel-bashing discourse of Noam Chomsky, Ilan PappĂŠ, and Edward Said. It is clear that Harvard CMES and its director, Paul Beran, are committed to the adoption of...

So Rose decided to awaken Proust's lover from her implausible slumber. In her 2001 novel, Albertine, the protagonist was not, or not merely, a wronged woman needing feminist liberation from a suffocating male neurotic's dismal sex act. Rose says: "The...