Earlier this week
In this week’s issue, Paul Berman takes another look at Mailer’s book. Berman, a self-described “earnest member of Students for a Democratic Society, antiwar stalwart, Columbia building-­occupier and so forth,” would seem ideally suited to the...
I have to say I'm getting more and more jittery about the global situation. This story from Iraq is just one story - but if the Shiite government really does want to get America out of the way and is now targeting key members of the Sunni...
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Berman, whose "liberalism and terror" (Berman is a liberal, well really almost a radical, AND a hawk - but to my mind less vitriolic and more insightful than Hitchens) was so compelling in the wake of 9-11, speaks out in the New Republic,...
This summer, the American Foreign Service Association put out a recommended reading list for its members. Because AFSA is the professional association for all American diplomats and because the reading list was cosponsored by the Undersecretary...
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Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Eschaton: Stars Of Their Own Heroic Epic: Years later, it's hard to comprehend the depths of the narcissism of people like [Paul] Berman who obviously see events in the world as nothing more...
Timothy Garton Ash, a well-regarded professor of European studies at Oxford University and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, explored the term “Islamofascism” in a recent column for the Guardian. After considering the...
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