Defining Recovery Down
What are we to make of the most recent jobs report, which shows that (a) unemployment increased from 9.5 percent to 9.6 percent and (b) nonfarm payrolls fell by 54,000 last month? If you’re White House...
View ArticleBig Questions About Being a Parent
Coincident with the arrival of my third child, I am astonished to see, once again, the topic of just how horribly awful it is to be a parent popping up again in the navel-gazer media — New York...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Obama Be More Like Bush
Over at Politico.com, senior editor David Mark poses this question: “Why can’t Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue act as cohesively as the Bush White House did with Republican congressional...
View ArticleCNN Editor Mourns and Respects a Promoter of “Resistance” and Terror
Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard found a doozy of a Twitter post on the Fourth of July by Octavia Nasr, CNN’s senior editor of Mideast Affairs. “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad...
View ArticleThe Real Death Panel
Politico’s headline reads “Mammograms as political weapon.” A more accurate headline might have been “Mammogram Advisers Become ObamaCare Death Panel.” It was the pronouncement of that panel — which...
View ArticleAnother Obama Aide Blames Israel First
Over at Connecting the Dots, Commentary’s senior editor Gabe Schoenfeld offers a telling account of how Barack Obama’s senior aide on nuclear proliferation initially denounced reports about North...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Communist
Can a deserter, a seeming traitor and a star in a propaganda film produced by a Communist dictatorship also be, in the end, an American patriot? That is one of the questions posed by the life of...
View ArticleUne puissance juive?
I was skeptical, at first, on the question of whether the Sarkozy administration would end up doing much to change the nearly 200-year French ambition of being Europe’s staunchest advocate for Muslim...
View ArticleWeekend Reading
In the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books, George Soros, the billionaire investor, philanthropist, amateur political scientist, and self-styled “stateless statesman,” has an essay...
View ArticleWelcome, David Pryce-Jones
We’d like to welcome to contentions as a guest blogger David Pryce-Jones, senior editor at National Review. David has written about systems of belief from Nazism and Communism to Islam. Among his books...
View ArticleMailer’s Grotesquerie
Almost a month after Lee Siegel’s expansive, unfocused paean to Norman Mailer’s The Castle in the Forest appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Ruth Franklin, a senior editor at the New Republic,...
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