Mark Goldblatt
One of the more absurd intellectual tics of the Left is lumping together strong religious sentiment with violent religious fanaticism — witness the rhetorical lather New York Times columnists worked up over the protestors outside Terri Schiavo’s hospice in Florida….
Certainty is sometimes a transient thing — as three prominent liberal commentators might have been reminded last Sunday, when the New York Times Book Review published highlights of their roundtable discussion on the future of liberalism in America. The discussion,…
Nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced last week, and due to a technicality, Walter Salles’s acclaimed The Motorcycle Diaries isn’t eligible for the foreign language Oscar. Because Diaries was shot in several South American countries, and financed primarily…
Now let me see if I’ve got this straight. Congressional Democrats insist they’re ready to work with President Bush as long as he meets them half way. “I hope that in this term, President Bush will fulfill his promise to…
In a famous thought experiment, you’re asked to suppose you’ve captured a terrorist who’s planted a bomb aboard a commercial airliner. How far will you go to obtain information from him? Will you: (1) Threaten to break his arm? (2)…
NEW YORK — Susan Sontag died the same week as a tsunami in south Asia killed over a hundred thousand people. There’s no logical connection between these two events. Even though Sontag titled one of her books Regarding the Pain…
NEW YORK — Jacques Derrida, the controversial French philosopher often called “the father of deconstruction,” died last Friday at 74. Obituaries over the weekend duly noted not only his influence on literary theory, film criticism, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, sociology and…
Last Sunday, speaking at East Mt. Zion Baptist Church, a predominantly black congregation in Cleveland, John Kerry insinuated that Republicans were deliberately attempting to suppress the black vote. “In battleground states across the country, we’re hearing stories of how people…
No sooner had the egg stopped dripping down Dan Rather’s face than Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe came forward to suggest that White House political adviser Karl Rove might actually be behind the bogus documents at the heart of…
NEW YORK –There was a marked sameness to the protest marches in New York City last week — several of them came through my neighborhood and one crossed in front of my building. What was striking, to my eye, was…
