About Josh Strawn

Despite the gracious and fraternal tone of A.B. Yehoshua’s letter to Gideon Levy in Haaretz, the concluding paragraph has a curious effect on the letter’s contents: Please, preserve the moral authority and concern that you possessed, and your distinctive voice. … Read More

Jeff Goldberg’s insightful-as-usual op-ed the New York Times, while filled with informative anecdotal nuggets aplenty, could actually have been trimmed to consist of only the headline, "Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas," and this: "A man who believes that … Read More

"WE ARE HAMAS," said protestors in London on January 3rd.  Welcome to 2009, and to the thoroughly postmodern, ahistorical, depoliticized, world in which we live.  And if the reader will kindly forgive the initial barrage of academic terms, and come … Read More

Freud once wrote that "the technique of jokes cannot be a matter of indifference from the point of view of discovering their essence." Adam Kirsch, in his takedown of Slavoj Zizek in The New Republic as "The Deadly Jester," is … Read More

Cal Thomas at the Washington Times has delved into the illustrious pages of dictionary.com to show us why an audio clip of Obama might be the smoking gun that proves he may as well be a socialist: Is socialism too … Read More

One of the most attractive things about the right in recent years has been its indignation toward frivolous moral equivalency. While many on the left were noting that "our terrorism" was as bad–if not worse–than "theirs," conservatives had sense to … Read More

Poring over the current commentary on William Ayers is a bit like looking at every picture from a Barack Obama rally at one sitting. Sure, you’d see hundreds, maybe thousands of snapshots of the same scene and the same people. … Read More