Crossposted from PostBourgie. I’ve a piece in the June issue of The American Prospect on this summer’s Lilith Fair revival: In 1998 and 1999, the festival featured a slightly more diverse lineup both racially and musically. But as the decade came to a close, there was little room in the mainstream for the kind of [...]

The definitive last word on Bret Stephens, Lady Gaga, Haifa Wehbe, Nancy Ajram, Palestine-or-Western-decadence-as-takfiri-motivator, Sayyid Qutb and deliberate stupefaction belongs to the Norse God Of Counterterrorism. By Odin’s Beard! How do we know that Palestine is more important than Westernization for the anti-American jihadists? First, al Qaeda’s leaders have spoken more often about Palestine and other [...]