I attended Rashid Khalidi's course, History of the Modern Middle East, 20 years ago and still think about it. Amid Columbia's sea of polished and top-of-their-game scholars, Khalidi stood out [...]
For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, and his latest editorial essay (“Intelligence analysts are [...]
So where do you see yourself living the rest of your life? The richest among us are keeping their options all open. On the one hand, our deepest pockets are buying [...]
Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about this. At the same time, Sanders has advertised his tour and [...]
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael [...]