Rosenblatt

In our time and place the humility of atonement and the calling to account has a deep imperative. Just open a newspaper or any news website. How fine a mass atonement and a dawning self-awareness would be. This all brings to mind Cantor Yosele Rosenblatt.  A recent Times piece about an intrepid audio amateur in … Read more

Dinesh With Schmucks

In the sequel to to Dinner With Schmucks, the mouse-collecting schmuck is played by Republican Intellectual Expert on Persons of Color Dinesh d’Souza. His job for the GOP is to peddle racism for use by others, hoping he gets a pass. Here, in a book and article. he claims that Obama is a tool of … Read more

The Volcano is Kar-upting

The corrupt ambitions of Hamid Karzai grow by leaps and bounds.  Today’s Times reported his specific intervention in releasing a suspect in custody. Tensions between Mr. Karzai and the Obama administration boiled over this summer after two anti-corruption task forces wiretapped conversations of a Karzai aide soliciting a bribe and threw him in jail. Mr. … Read more