Thursday, June 13, 2013

Egypt’s Summer of Jew Hatred. By Sohrab Ahmari.

Egypt’s Summer of Jew Hatred. By Sohrab Ahmari. Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2013.

WSJ reports on “Khaybar” antisemitic miniseries (UPDATES). The Elder of Ziyon, June 12, 2013. With video of Egypt’s DreamTV news segment on the film in Arabic. YouTube.



The NSA Scandal and Obama’s War Strategy. By Walter Russell Mead.

Public Peace, Secret War: The Snooping Scandals and The President’s War Strategy. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 6, 2013.

Americans to US Government: Snoop, Baby, Snoop! By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 12, 2013.

Dollarocracy: Politicians Are Data Mining the American Electorate. By John Nichols.

Not Just the NSA: Politicians Are Data Mining the American Electorate. By John Nichols. The Nation, June 11, 2013.

John Nichols: Data Mining American Voters. Video. videonation, June 13, 2013. YouTube.



Michael Lind vs. Ben Domenech on Libertarianism.

The question libertarians just can’t answer. By Michael Lind. Salon, June 4, 2013.

Libertarians: Still a cult. By Michael Lind. Salon, June 11, 2013.

Michael Lind’s Revisionist Libertarian Smear. By Ben Domenech. Real Clear Politics, June 12, 2013.

Culture Wars—South of the Navel. By Peter Berger.

Culture Wars—South of the Navel. By Peter Berger. The American Interest, June 12, 2013.

Good Atheists? By Peter Berger. The American Interest, June 5, 2013.

America’s Vast Margin of Error. By Victor Davis Hanson.

America’s Vast Margin of Error. By Victor Davis Hanson. National Review Online, June 13, 2013.

Because the U.S. has so much going for it, it’s taking everything from education to freedoms for granted.

The West Will Miss Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. By Reza Aslan.

Missing Mahmoud. By Reza Aslan. Foreign Policy, June 12, 2013.

Aslan:

Ahmadinejad broke that clerical precedent when he trounced his opponent, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, by painting him as a wealthy, corrupt, out-of-touch mullah with no appreciation for the common man's concerns. In contrast to the fantastically wealthy Rafsanjani, whose speeches were peppered with Arabic words and Quranic recitations, Ahmadinejad dressed simply, spoke colloquial Persian, and clothed himself in a provincial religiosity deliberately stripped of clerical learning.


Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong? By Reza Aslan. The Atlantic, January 13, 2011.

Reading Ahmadinejad via Wikileaks: A Freedom Lover or a Two-Bit Dictator? By Omid Memarian. The Huffington Post, January 31, 2011.

A Little Ahmadinejad Revisionism for You. By Jeffrey Goldberg. The Atlantic, January 13, 2011.


Ahmadinejad as the Jacksonian populist of Iran challenging the out-of-touch clerical elites.

Syria: The New Problem From Hell. By Aaron David Miller.

The New Problem From Hell. By Aaron David Miller. Foreign Policy, June 11, 2013.

Obama’s options in Syria are awful. But the United States is headed for intervention anyway.


Obama’s Options in Syria Are Few and All Bad. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 11, 2013.

Syrian Rebels Massacre Shiites. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 12, 2013.

US Edging Closer to Syria War. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 13, 2013.

Neither Assad nor the Jihadists. By Emanuele Ottolenghi. Commentary, June 12, 2013.

Syria: Inventing a Religious War. By Toby Matthiesen. New York Review of Books Blog, June 12, 2013.

The Syria Strategy Vacuum. By Marc Lynch. Foreign Policy, June 13, 2013.

Syria deaths near 100,000, says UN – and 6,000 are children. By Ian Black. The Guardian, June 13, 2013. UN Report.