“An open letter to Joe Biden.”
Complicit in ‘the crime of crimes.’ Peter Dimock, the distinguished novelist, previously graced our pages two years ago this week, when Deep Vellum, the Dallas publisher, brought out Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson, the most recent of his innovative…
Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?
A President and a Nation’s Promise On January 9, 1953, The Washington Post published an editorial we can read all these years later as a murmur amid a long silence. “Choice or Chance” was a blunt worry about what the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Banality of Propaganda
The annals of the awful art — Hitler’s, Mussolini’s, Japan’s and America’s during World War II — show that it does not have to be sophisticated. The Israeli president’s display of Mein Kampf just proved that again. I watched a video clip Sunday of Isaac Herzog that…
Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’
Palestine and the New World Order Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, an undeclared red line the Israel Defense Forces dared not cross without provoking international disgust and condemnation. At writing, the IDF is bombing hospitals and, I…
Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Frankenstein
The new wave of violence in Israel and Gaza now enters its second month. More than 10,000 people have been killed, The Associated Press reports, 40 percent of them children. Where is this catastrophe going? What are the limits of…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Media’s Fatal Compromises
It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We appear to be on the way to having wars fought — huge, bloody, consequential wars — without any witnesses. The…