Bret Stephens
The Pulitzers Honor a Smear Artist
Bret Stephens played the anti-Semitism card against Chuck Hagel—and is rewarded for it
The announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes last week was rightly overshadowed by the bombings at the Boston Marathon, which was, of course, only appropriate: No one knows better than serious reporters that hard news trumps ceremony. READ MORE >>
The Solution For Europe? Scott Walker.
The Obama-Is-Dumb Meme
Worst and Dimmest
Washington in the early days of a new administration is a didactic, lesson-drawing place, but even so, it has been striking to see how quickly the commentary on the death of Robert McNamara, defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and architect of the Vietnam war, has turned to abstraction--as if it was not one exceptionally smart man being buried, but a certain kind of smarts itself. "What happened ... to Robert McNamara teaches a lesson to all those who talk of governments of all the talents," editorialized The Times of London. READ MORE >>
"the Sderot Calculus"
....is what the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens calls his column this morning about Israel's options in Gaza. Some 2,500 Kassam rockets have been fired from Gaza. And, while only 12 of them were lethal and hundreds of others resulted "only" in maiming and amputations, the consequences for normal life have been awful. Still, as Stephens points out, if there were "no Palestinian Kassams (or other forms of terrorism)," there'd be "no Israeli 'siege'." READ MORE >>
Consequences V. Intent
by Alan Wolfe "Still," writes Bret Stephens in response to John Judis, "were it up to me Judt, Mearsheimer, Carter et al would be run out of polite society. What's wrong with that?" Let me try to answer. On second thought, let me allow John Stuart Mill to answer. READ MORE >>
