The Debate Link

Now this is a story . Palestinian Finance Minister shows up at a BDS conference. Participant asks minister why they're still engaging in...

America's policy towards Syria has been rather ambivalent. And most Americans seem to share in that ambivalence. It's not hard to un...

Congratulations to Samantha Power, author of "A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide", who's been tapped as our n...

TPM tries to read the tea leaves on the Supreme Court's upcoming affirmative action decision, but I was more struck by this throwaway l...

I don't get "pinkwashing." As a concept, I mean. I don't get the supposed logic behind it. It is, as best I can tell, the ...

Eric Yoffie says what I've been pleading for someone to say : Synagogues (or other Jewish communal spaces) are not open-mic nights. Ther...

I am in absolute agreement with Ta-Nehisi Coates' discussion about how President Obama talks to the Black community. For all the talk a...

Impeachment is the word of the day, as after faux-scandal after faux-scandal have failed to stick, Republicans have finally found a governme...

It wasn't the first academic piece I had accepted for publication (that would be "When Separation Doesn't Work: The Religion Cl...

Reprinting a status update from David Hirsh, whose  Engage  organization is simply an indispensable resource for those concerned with anti...

A smattering of Israel links sitting on my browser: Left and right groups agree: Israel is freezing new settlement construction . Norm G...

A Facebook friend, with the ever-so-wry "just sayin'", just posted a quote attributed to a certain Father John Sheehan, S.J.: ...

Tonight's quote of the evening was found while reading Joseph William Singer's The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory ,...

Why am I blooging this ? Because it makes me happy, that's why. Do I need another reason? If he could only afford it, Geoff Ramokgadi sa...

Phoebe Maltz nails it , discussing the creation of a late 19th century German colony established, in part, to keep good Aryans away from tho...

Norman Podhoertz has a retrospective commemorating the 50th anniversary of his famous essay "My Negro Problem-and Ours". The orig...

The Church of Scotland takes on Jewish claims to the land of Israel. It's strategy for doing so is to put forward an extreme irrendetis...

Two pieces of good news related to the Holy Land. First, incoming Justice Minister Tzipi Livni indicated that she'll be cracking down o...

During the recent Kamala Harris incident (wherein Barack Obama, in the course of calling Harris "brilliant", "dedicated...

Ta-Nehisi Coates post on Dr. Benjamin Carson is heart-breaking because, for whatever reason, I suspecting exactly this about Dr. Carson. Fo...