The FT reports that China has raised fuel prices across the board. Gas is now more expensive in China (about $3 per gallon) than it is in the US. What does it say about the US, when a developing country… Read More »China Raises Fuel Prices
Elliott Abrams’ return to op-ed pages has given me fits. See his WSJ and NYT op-eds. Now the ghost of Iran-Contra is back, although Abrams has now moved from Latin American issues to his real love, Middle East issues, where… Read More »Elliott Abrams as Ghost and in Person
Elliott Abrams has another op-ed, this time in the WSJ. It, of course, goes totally against Tony Judt’s op-ed on Israeli settlements. He says the US agreed to the settlements that Obama’s administration is now questioning. He’s basically saying that… Read More »Elliott Abrams Is Bank Again
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists calls for a missile test ban to supplement the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Interestingly the article puts the MTCR in the context of the Reykjavik Summit, where Richard Perle famously stopped President Reagan… Read More »MTCR Still Around
This NYT op-ed by Tony Judt, a Jew, about the illegality of all Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory illustrates the best in Jewish thinking on the Israel situation. And it’s published in the NYT, which is owned by Jews. So… Read More »Settlements, Schmettlements
I was unhappy to see an op-ed by Elliott Abrams in today’s NYT about Lebanon and Iran. I was going to write a letter to the editor saying that they should have mentioned in his profile that he is a… Read More »Elliott Abrams Is Back
The NYT reports that traditional history is decreasing in importance at most universities. It says that while universities are giving decreasing importance to diplomatic or international history, they are giving increased importance to the history of things like women’s studies,… Read More »Diplomatic History Only Interesting If White Men in Charge
Today’s NYT front pages the conflict between Admiral Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, and Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA over who should be station chiefs at embassies around the world. In describing the dispute, the NYT… Read More »Republicans Destroyed the CIA
This article in yesterday’s NYT chronicled the infighting among Obama’s economic advisers, but it didn’t mention Paul Volker. I find that disturbing, because Volker is the only one who has really gotten the US out of an economic mess. Greenspan… Read More »Where’s Volker
It may happen frequently or infrequently, but it looks like all the authors of op-eds in today’s New York Times are Jewish. Actually, I’m not sure about the guy who did the cartoons of an old graduating class, but his… Read More »NYT Op-Eds