Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Dinner with the Ambassador (11:31 PM) - Last night I was privileged enough to have a fine meal with Dan Kurtzer, who was the American ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005 and the ambassador to Egypt during the Clinton administration. Mr. Kurtzer is currently a visiting…
The Failure of Packaging, Cont. (09:08 PM) - I wrote several weeks ago in “The Harvard Novelist and Her Dutiful Fakirs” on the underreported fact that Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard sophomore who used the chick lit subnet of the Borg Collective to write a piece of lipstick-stained fiction,…
Welcome to Election Season (09:00 PM) - CBS NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES POLL: Americans have bleaker view of direction the country is heading than at any time in 23 years. Well, of course they do….
Coolidge’s Wordman (11:25 AM) - Judson Welliver was indeed, from what I understand, the first man whose proper job was to draft the official speeches of the President of the United States. Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren muses on Welliver and the work…