Green Zone Bombs
In Does Hollywood Make You Stupid? I noted, among other things, the imminent release of Green Zone, the latest in Hollywood’s long string of anti-Iraq-war movies. Green Zone, starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass, tries to rewrite the history of the war, claiming that the CIA, the Bush administration and the Army [...]
Andrew Sullivan’s Island
Leon Wieseltier created a stir this week when he floated the
idea that Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan’s harsh
attacks on Israel may be motivated by anti-Semitism.
For good reason, many argue that Sullivan should not be taken
seriously and deserves to be ignored. Yet he still drives
political [...]
Will the Spending Freeze Be Obama’s Immigration Reform?
President Obama is a highly polarizing figure. The Gallup organization says that the "65 percentage-point gap between Democrats' (88%) and Republicans' (23%) average job approval ratings for Barack Obama is easily the largest for any president in his first year in office, greatly exceeding the prior high of 52 points for Bill Clinton." Thus Obama's [...]
Revisionist History
A reader points out a remarkable bit of revisionist history in Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize speech. No doubt others have commented on it and I’ve just missed it; but, in any event, it bears repeating. Here is the excerpt from Obama’s speech:
Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he [...]
"I Reject Your Reality…"
“…And substitute my own!”
So reads a t-shirt often worn by Adam Savage, one of the two original starts of the Discovery Channel’s series Mythbusters, which I have slavishly watched since the very first episode (I think that was the episode where they busted the myth of the rocket-propelled car launching into the air).
The tee commemorates [...]
Lessons of the Fall
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
By Adrian Goldsworthy
(Yale University Press, 560 pages, $32.50)
Adrian Goldsworthy is a great name for a classicist, and,
fortunately, Adrian Goldsworthy is a classicist of the first
order. He earned his doctorate at Oxford, and is the author [...]
