Tag Archives: criticism

The Permission for Resistance

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Lee

Brief except of a talk at the 92nd Street Y between Salman Rushdie and Irshad Manji, discussing the possibility of reform against extremism in the Islamic faith. Rushdie draws a fine parallel with the experience of the Western left during … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Uncategorized | Tagged 92nd Street Y, Cold War, criticism, iron curtain, Irshad Manji, islam, reform, resistance, Salman Rushdie, socialism, totalitarianism, western left | Leave a comment

An Immunity to Ecstasy

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Lee

So we had an election. For those in the new opposition the outcome was variously enviable, troubling, or contemptible. For the victors it was…what else, an occasion for gathering an enormous outdoor rally at an urban theatrical stage to chant. … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged Barack Obama, Chicago, criticism, Domestic Politics, ecstasy, ecstatic politics, election, Mike Potemra, national review., Obama | Leave a comment

Immunizing Sarah Palin

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page | Tagged 1960s, 1970s, 1980, character attacks, Christopher Hitchens, criticism, election, email, Gossip, Hitchens, left, Nixon, nuclear war, Palin, presidency, racism, Republican, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, rumors, Sarah Palin, Slate, teflon, Tom LeGro, Walter Dean Burnham | 4 Comments

A Sexual Imagination is Not a Crime

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Serguei Kovalev) Christopher Hitchens once said that the trouble with biographers of Thomas Jefferson, is that there appears to be the collective assumption on their part that the great man was without a penis. I’m reminded of this truth … Continue reading →

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I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Lee

Michael Goldfarb denounced Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives as “disgraceful” today, for their open criticism of John McCain’s record and views. He labels it the result of a psychological condition he and other McCain apologists call “McCain Derangement Syndrome”: I … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page | Tagged Bill Kristol, conservative, criticism, democracy, GOP, Harriet Miers, liberal, McCain, Michel Goldfarb, Rush Limbaugh, silence, Weekly Standard | 18 Comments