Cobban on Hitchens Helena Cobban is one of our great foreign affairs journalists. She has covered the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere for many years […]

Hitchens not Drunk, Only an Asinine Thief I’m told Andrew Sullivan is saying that he was at Hitchens’s house when Hitchens stole my private mail […]

British To Withdraw from Maysan, Muthanna Dozens Killed The British are obviously declaring victory in southern Iraq and going home. They are in the process […]

Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist And, “We don’t Want Your Stinking War! Christopher Hitchens owes me a big apology. I belong to a […]

Biden Plan on Iraq As some readers suggested, the Biden/Gelb op-ed in the Washington Post on Iraq was much compressed. More details are available in […]

More on Autonomous Regions Senator Biden and Leslie Gelb propose a Bosnia solution for Iraq. That is, a very loose federation of three big ethnic […]

The Israel Lobby And a Reply to Drezner Philip Weiss weighs in on the Mearsheimer and Walt paper on the Israel lobby at The Nation. […]

Settling Iraq before it Blows Up A renewed debate on the possible partition of Iraq is emerging. Let’s get one thing out of the way. […]

Racial McCarthyism on the Right The petition I set up to defend John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from scurrilous charges of anti-Semitism (which is to […]