The hits just keep coming, don’t they? This piece is a bit of a recapitulation—aka I’ve been lying down on the job—but Harvard, fair Harvard, whom I’ve booted around before in the past two weeks with no mean gusto—is back in the news, and not in a good way. First, and most ghastly, is the…
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Alas, Poor Hillary!
Only in America (probably) could a woman running for office who received 2.7 million more votes than her opponent be reviled and ridiculed as a “loser”. Yet such is the hard fate of the hard to love Hillary Rodham Clinton. If I were really mean, I would say that Hillary can’t stop stepping on her…
A World of Struggle at Harvard Law
(Author’s Note: The following is a sprawling takedown of David Kennedy’s A World of Struggle, a book that clearly got my goat.) Pankaj Mishra is the author of several fascinating books, including From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia and his new one Age of Anger, which I am struggling to get…
I cannot keep silent! Part Deux
This not talking shit is hard! Yesterday, I couldn’t/wouldn’t keep silent about some year-old bullshit from David Ignatius. Well, today it’s the National Review’s Rich Lowry, opining about General Trump’s plans to reignite the war in Afghanistan: “At the end of the day, this is Trump concluding that he doesn’t want to lose a war…
Jay Nordlinger at the end of his tether
Back in the day, like the Eighties day, and even later, I used to check out the National Review, either at the newsstand or the library, because I don’t remember ever being dedicated enough to buy a copy, just to keep up with what the enemy was thinking. There were a few writers whom I…
Yes, but
Recently, “informed opinion” has protested the leaking of the transcripts of conversations that President Trump had with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Sure, the transcripts show that Donald Trump is an amazing colossal asshole/amazing colossal dick. We knew that! And now foreign leaders will be afraid to speak honestly…
“We” married him? John, honey, you created him!
John Podhoretz, like me, wishing the hell that Donald Trump wasn’t president, writes the following: “The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called ‘the politics of unseriousness.’ He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy soundbite bromide about it. He yammers. He describes how wonderful things will be…
Mitch McConnell, boneless or soulless? Or both?
Winston Churchill, clearly in a bitchy mood, once said of Labor Party Leader Ramsey MacDonald “I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The…
That gosh darn media! GOSH DARN IT!
You may have read about Donald Trump’s utterly disgusting speech to an assembly of police officers in Long Island during which he enouraged the assembled cops to “rough up” suspects and assured the boys in blue that although current laws “totally protect the criminal, not the officers, we’re changing those laws.” Well, I didn’t read…
Republicans Show Some Bottom (but not much)
You may remember Bottom’s Dream from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—“past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was–there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patched…