Revenge of Che
Hollywood’s latest round of “Che-mania” kicked off last Friday in New York with a one week preview of Steven Soderbergh’s epic four hour biopic on the life and times of ...
Unqualified
Given the media drumbeat highlighting Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s lack of international policy experience and the corollary proposition that she’s unfit to be a heartbeat from the presidency, it might ...
Palin’s Moment
Thank you for the question, Ms. Ifill — patronizing though it is. And, yes, if pressed, I could probably stand up right now, walk across the stage and name every ...
The Necessary Religion
The most famous sentence ever set to paper by an American was not conceived in a single instant. In his first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote: ...
No Recount on Reality
Recount, HBO’s dramatic recreation of events surrounding Florida’s 2000 presidential voting fiasco which landed George W. Bush in the White House, debuts on May 25. Early returns look good, at ...
Wright Makes Wrong
In his “A More Perfect Union” speech back in March, Barack Obama argued that he could no more disown his former pastor Jeremiah Wright than he could disown the black ...
The Cognitive Gap
Conservative commentators, with a few exceptions, have spent the last few days picking apart Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech on the problem of race in American history, politics, ...
The Final Piece of the Puzzle
Ever since American forces invaded, overran and occupied Iraq in 2003, and discovered no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the great lingering question about the war has been why ...
It’s One War
If you accept the analytical posture of critics of the Iraq invasion, it makes no sense for the NYPD, the Port Authority, and the Secret Service to veto the request ...
Bad Newz
Whoopi Goldberg, in her first day as permanent co-host of The View, raised eyebrows when she seemed to defend disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who last month pleaded guilty ...