If I were president (ha), I’d give a short, crisp speech saying what our goals in the Iran war are. What is our purpose, and how will we know whether we have achieved it? I’m supposed to study foreign affairs for a living — and I don’t know the answers. (Do you?)
And the day-after breakdown. Always just slightly sad.
Lincoln Center Plaza has turned cinematic. (No sign of Meryl yet.)
It's an old lesson: Policies or practices implemented on an "emergency" basis may well become permanent. (Mubarak ruled by "emergency" decree for 30 years.) apnews.com/article/nati...
Even at this late date, many Americans don't know what Putin's Russia is doing to the Ukrainians -- either because they don't want to know or because the media they consume won't tell them. But they ought to know. www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-...
Some of Orbán's defenders -- some -- are willing to cop to his corruption. But that's not the worst thing about him. It's his alliance with Putin, against the Ukrainians. Russia is assaulting a neighbor, in an attempt to subjugate it. This is the side of evil. Cop to *that*.
Untrue: Péter Magyar microwaved a family pet in front of his children. True: Putin presides over the murder, maiming, and kidnapping of innocents every day. If you want to discuss monstrosities, there are real ones. But you might have to ... criticize Putin. (Unthinkable?)
"We are the keepers of the flame," said Reagan. "It's up to us to foster the legacy of those who came before us and to ensure America remains a champion of liberty and a force for good in the world." I begin my column today with this and related ideas.
www.jaynordlinger.com/p/keepers-of...
May your path be strewn with flowers, day after day.
It was an overcast morning in Central Park. But the blooms didn’t seem to mind.
If you saw "The Return of Martin Guerre" when it came out in 1982, as I did (age 18), it was hard not to fall in love with Nathalie Baye. apnews.com/article/eu-f...
Like Sakharov, Reagan insisted on talking about individual cases, individual political prisoners. One of them was Petro Ruban. Ruban was released in 1988. When Reagan died in 2004, he said, "I remember Reagan for his magnificent internal beauty." A striking statement.
Reagan liked to tell jokes and funny stories, learned from Soviet dissidents. Here's one: "What's a Communist? Someone who has read Marx and Lenin. What's an anti-Communist? Someone who has understood Marx and Lenin."
"We are the keepers of the flame," said Reagan. "It's up to us to foster the legacy of those who came before us and to ensure America remains a champion of liberty and a force for good in the world." I begin my column today with this and related ideas.
www.jaynordlinger.com/p/keepers-of...
Along the Hudson River, big fat pink ones. (Pardon the expression.)
"Are you Hungary'd out? If you were, I wouldn't blame you." That's how I begin my column today. I have a few notes of interest, I think. I grew up with the phrase "goulash communism." Now we have seen "goulash" something else. Anyway -- have a look. Thx. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/hungary-an...
"Are you Hungary'd out? If you were, I wouldn't blame you." That's how I begin my column today. I have a few notes of interest, I think. I grew up with the phrase "goulash communism." Now we have seen "goulash" something else. Anyway -- have a look. Thx. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/hungary-an...
One thing about the Trump administration: it's just so small. Here is an example of that flagrant pettiness. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
You may have a certain idea of "conservative Christians" or "Christian conservatives" in the Time of Trump. (If you do, you can hardly be blamed.) Let me suggest you give Prof. Mark Caleb Smith a try. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Fascinating.
For the music-minded, a review of Khatia Buniatishvili, the Georgian pianist, at Carnegie Hall last night. newcriterion.com/dispatch/kra...
For the music-minded, a review of Khatia Buniatishvili, the Georgian pianist, at Carnegie Hall last night. newcriterion.com/dispatch/kra...
More from Ros-Lehtinen: Engel "sought out compromise and did not consider it heresy or treason to see issues from another person's point of view." Rather amazing.
Engel's Republican colleague Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tells me: "Eliot was almost an extinct animal in the public arena: a bipartisan and principled statesman who was unafraid to call out oppressors no matter their political bent."
"To me, Eliot Engel stood for an Americanism that barely exists in our country anymore." I have written about the late New York congressman, who called himself just about the last of the "JFK Democrats." An interesting, valuable guy. www.thenextmove.org/p/a-mensch-f...
More from Ros-Lehtinen: Engel "sought out compromise and did not consider it heresy or treason to see issues from another person's point of view." Rather amazing.
Engel's Republican colleague Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tells me: "Eliot was almost an extinct animal in the public arena: a bipartisan and principled statesman who was unafraid to call out oppressors no matter their political bent."
"To me, Eliot Engel stood for an Americanism that barely exists in our country anymore." I have written about the late New York congressman, who called himself just about the last of the "JFK Democrats." An interesting, valuable guy. www.thenextmove.org/p/a-mensch-f...
Also in this column, I have remarks on Trump iconography and the Iran war. (These remarks are separate, I hasten to say.) Are you feeling ambivalent about the war? Join the club.
