“I admire President Nixon’s courage. It is difficult for me to understand . . . why people are still criticizing his foreign policy — for example, the bombing in Cambodia.” — Lt. John McCain, 1973 “Collective guilt is . . . partly constituted by individual shame.” — Peter...
The War of Punishment and Frustration The Israeli assault on the Palestinians pitted one of the most powerful armies in the world against a political movement with a crude military organization, using home-made rockets. Yet Israeli leaders have discovered that wiping out Hamas is not an...
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” —Corinthians 13:11“In the epoch in which we now live, civilization is not an ideal or an aspiration, it is a video game.” —Benjamin R....
An Open Letter to President Jennifer Raab Hunter College, CUNY January 25, 2009 Dear President Raab, Your email of January 15 asked our community to join you in proclaiming “hooray for Hunter,” after the college was recently ranked number eight on Princeton Review’s list of Best...
BILL KELLY In the days since Jack Diggins’ death, I’ve been struck by how many times I’ve heard and read that Jack was beyond category: a contrarian, a maverick, a relentlessly independent thinker. To some extent, Jack cultivated that perception. His own assessment of himself as...
