‘Call me a crank, but I’ve had enough of reverential nostalgia for The New York Intellectuals,’ declared feminist writer Ellen Willis in 1999. She objected to her fellow liberals’ tendency to pay ‘disinterested tribute’ to Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Nathan …
On no recent president have more hopes rested than upon Barack Obama. After eight years of war, partisanship, and economic strife Americans are desperate for a saviour. And so they and the media have taken an ambitious and talented politician …
It is a bitter irony that the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which some 3,000 people lost their lives, has been overshadowed by the many tragedies of their aftermath. Consider just those perpetrated by the United States. …
