The New Republic

George Soros published a piece in the New York Review of Books a few weeks ago and focused on the efforts of the Jewish lobby to--what he called--"suppress criticism" of Israel. Alvin Rosenfeld was one of Soros' prime targets because of an essay he had written for the American Jewish Committee analyzing the methods used and conclusions reached by the reinvigorated claque of anti-Israel obsessives. READ MORE >>

According to Tuesday's New York Times, George Soros did not make $1 billion this year in the hedge fund business. He was off maybe $50 million. Not to worry. Although a youngish friend of mine did make $2 billion, and he doesn't press his politics on the nation. Which, of course, is exactly what Soros does. READ MORE >>

As I wrote a few days ago, I am not yet done with George Soros who has restarted the argument we had more than a fortnight ago in this space. He has written a piece in The New York Review of Books which has been reprinted in a shortened version by the Financial Times. READ MORE >>

I've just read George Soros' predictable piece on Israel and on AIPAC in the current New York Review of Books whose also predictable commentary on the Jewish state began long ago with Noam Chomsky. (The Review stopped publishing Chomsky on Israel when Isaiah Berlin told its editor, Robert READ MORE >>

On the evidence in Talkbacks to The Spine, some readers are annoyed with me for what they think is my picking on poor George Soros. Well, if you care about responsible capitalism--which maybe Soros doesn't--the performance of Jet Blue in the past few days has been nothing less than appalling. I know that Soros can't be blamed for the weather. (That's clearly George Bush's fault.) But the founder and leading stockholder of an airline does have some duty to its passengers. The stock is not doing badly, down to $13.56 from its year high of of $17.02, but way up from its low of $8.93. READ MORE >>

It was May 13, 2003. I was supposed to be on the same platform with the Nobel Laureate for Literature Imre Kertész, a Jew and a Hungarian, the first to win a Nobel Prize for literature. I had only read his novel Fateless. (I have since read another, Kaddish for a Child Not Born.) Even from the one book I had read, a searing fantasy of memory, I was stirred by being in Kertész's presence. READ MORE >>

Most parents feel a twinge of anxiety at the thought of leaving their teenagers unsupervised for any length of time. It’s not that the kids are bad; it’s just that, set free from parental oversight, the urge to run wild can prove irresistible. The 1983 Tom Cruise hit Risky Business provided a worst- case template for how quickly things can spiral out of control: One minute, your super-responsible son is lip-synching Bob Seger tunes in his underpants. The next, he has wrecked your Porsche, turned your home into a brothel, and gotten all your furniture stolen by Guido the Killer Pimp. READ MORE >>

Have you noticed that, since George Soros and his pals have been spending some of their cash to save America, the Democrats have lost interest in the wicked role of big money in our politics? Now, let me concede a point from the start: Soros did a lot to build up the infrastructure of freedom in communist Eastern Europe, and after. That alone may get him past the gates of heaven. But, frankly, he's been quite goofy about other matters. And, since the press rarely probes the minds of zillionaires, his every thought is treated like heavy thought. READ MORE >>

I am acting out a fantasy and so is Eastern Europe. A psychiatrist once told me how dangerous it is to act out fantasies and I am beginning to see what he meant. --George Soros READ MORE >>